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The Man From Taured
A strange man walks up to the customs counter at O’Hare International Airport. He carries a passport, driver’s license, papers, all of it looking legit. There’s just one thing that causes the customs agent to raise the alarm – the passport and license are from a country that does not, and has never, existed. That's the famous urban legend you may have heard before. It was just the start of the story... Then he vanishes. Noble Randle, working for Homeland Security, is called in to investigate. The solution, he figures, has to be something simple. What he does not know is that his life is about to change, that he has a very unique ability, and that the fate of this universe and thousands of others rests in his hands. The walls between dimensions and parallel universes are breaking down. Behind it is an evil as old as time itself. An evil that wants to devour every other universe and gain total control over everyone and everything. The Man from Taured is a story that ranges from horror, to action, mystery and suspense. An epic tale that is there more to this world than we know? Are there other universes, other dimensions, right nearby? Perhaps as close as a breath away. From suspense, horror and mystery writer Bryan W. Alaspa comes a tale that crosses generations, and dimensions. A story that will challenge your perception of reality itself, and keep you up late at night, afraid to answer the knock at the door. Who is THE MAN FROM TAURED?
- GenresScience Fiction
670 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 25, 2015
86 people are currently reading
830 people want to read
About the author
Bryan W. Alaspa
91 books173 followersI was born in the fine year of 1971 in Park Ridge, IL. I am a life long Chicago resident and I love the city. I spent a few years in St. Louis, as well. I knew I wanted to write from the time I sat down at my mom's electric typewriter in the 3rd grade. Now I do write. I write freelance and articles for online news sources. I write horror, thrillers and detective novels. I also write non-fiction in true crime and history genres. I publish my fiction myself as an indie publisher and write and have found an audience for my work among ebook fans. I publish for Kindle, Nook and other tablets and devices at Smashwords.com. My non-fiction is usually published in print, but that may soon change as ebooks become more and more of the norm.
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June 5, 2020
If you want to know more about the man from Taured, this is not the right book. The man is mentioned in the first part of the book but the story takes a completely different path. It’s about everything, from the Bible to the Nazis, but Taured was forgotten. That’s my complaint.
But if you like sci-fi with a bit of horror, and the theory of the multiverse is appealing to you, then read away!
But if you like sci-fi with a bit of horror, and the theory of the multiverse is appealing to you, then read away!
July 17, 2019
Late last year, I found myself using the Stumble Upon app (RIP), and it allowed me to select certain interests. While under what you may call a paranormal tag, I stumbled upon something that wasn't about ghosts; for some reason, a link that may be more appropriate under a conspiracy theory 'tag' slid onto the screen on my phone. It was about parallel universe theories. I'm not one to delve into theories, but I decided to do a manual search for parallel universe stories. The first page that loaded onto the screen was a blog post containing paraphrased and shorter versions of several stories. Some of them didn't quite intrigue me, while others did. One of them was about a man from a country called Taured.
Summarizing, this story claims that an unnamed man appeared in Tokyo in July of 1954. Everything seems to be in order, except the man's passport and driver's license. Both claim that he is from a country called Taured in Europe, which obviously does not exist. They put him up in a hotel room after questioning him, and he eventually disappears without leaving a trace. You can read more about that here, as well as doing a simple internet search.
Sadly, I'm not sure where the link of the shorter and paraphrased versions of those short stories would be outside of the Stumble Upon app, but I did find the site that I linked above. Eventually, I found myself completely fascinated in this story. On Amazon, I managed to find this book by Bryan Alaspa. While it did not satisfy my curiosity about the actual story (and by actual, I don't mean that it literally happened. From what I understand, there is no proof), it did leave me on the edge of my seat.
This book has a slightly different beginning. In this book, the man has a name. It is Francis Duveen, and he did not fly to Tokyo, but instead to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Despite these differences, no matter if you define them as big or small, I absolutely loved it. This is another book with which I had a love/hate relationship with some parts of the story and some of the characters.
It kind of reminded me of the minister of a church I used to attend. Briefly put, that minister would begin his sermon on one subject, and then go way off in left field with a side story/analogy, and leave you wondering how he was going to bring it back to the point. He would also give side stories and analogies in the middle of the first and second readings from the Bible. Sometimes even the Gospel reading; but the point of this mention is not to get religious. Alaspa does this with this story, and the end result is a five star rating from me.
Basically, I come away from this book with no complaints. Aside perhaps that a character named Albert was not gay, but that's probably for the best in this instance. I was somewhat tempted to ship Albert and Augustus, but didn't when I focused on the bigger picture. I began reading this book in April of this year (2017), and the only reason it has taken till September to read it is because (as redundant to say in my reviews as it may have become) I fell out of the reading bug.
Lastly, I've read some comments about this book and how it was allegedly given an odd title. I disagree. The man from Taured started it all. Definitely worth the time, and definitely worth reading.
Summarizing, this story claims that an unnamed man appeared in Tokyo in July of 1954. Everything seems to be in order, except the man's passport and driver's license. Both claim that he is from a country called Taured in Europe, which obviously does not exist. They put him up in a hotel room after questioning him, and he eventually disappears without leaving a trace. You can read more about that here, as well as doing a simple internet search.
Sadly, I'm not sure where the link of the shorter and paraphrased versions of those short stories would be outside of the Stumble Upon app, but I did find the site that I linked above. Eventually, I found myself completely fascinated in this story. On Amazon, I managed to find this book by Bryan Alaspa. While it did not satisfy my curiosity about the actual story (and by actual, I don't mean that it literally happened. From what I understand, there is no proof), it did leave me on the edge of my seat.
This book has a slightly different beginning. In this book, the man has a name. It is Francis Duveen, and he did not fly to Tokyo, but instead to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Despite these differences, no matter if you define them as big or small, I absolutely loved it. This is another book with which I had a love/hate relationship with some parts of the story and some of the characters.
It kind of reminded me of the minister of a church I used to attend. Briefly put, that minister would begin his sermon on one subject, and then go way off in left field with a side story/analogy, and leave you wondering how he was going to bring it back to the point. He would also give side stories and analogies in the middle of the first and second readings from the Bible. Sometimes even the Gospel reading; but the point of this mention is not to get religious. Alaspa does this with this story, and the end result is a five star rating from me.
Basically, I come away from this book with no complaints. Aside perhaps that a character named Albert was not gay, but that's probably for the best in this instance. I was somewhat tempted to ship Albert and Augustus, but didn't when I focused on the bigger picture. I began reading this book in April of this year (2017), and the only reason it has taken till September to read it is because (as redundant to say in my reviews as it may have become) I fell out of the reading bug.
Lastly, I've read some comments about this book and how it was allegedly given an odd title. I disagree. The man from Taured started it all. Definitely worth the time, and definitely worth reading.
June 25, 2023
5 stars, really enjoyed this book. It wasn't quite what I was expecting, I just saw the title and bought it, and went into a totally different direction. I loved all the characters, even the bad ones were interesting. I read through it pretty quickly considering the size of it, but I was deep into the whole book, no skimming. Definitely recommend this book. Now I need to check.out more of the author's works.
April 2, 2019
Brilliant page turner
June 20, 2019
Brilliant
December 19, 2019
Love it
February 24, 2020
Great story line, but terrible editing all around.
Read
April 24, 2020Couldn't find the story engaging at all.. had to abandon reading after 20 pages
Want to read
August 16, 2020it is an very interesting story
November 3, 2020
Story telling and flashbacks have been used very effectively for narration. Science part of this fiction lacks the soul and feels like has been arranged in bits and pieces. Written in screenplay theme.
A very promising premise, doesn't live up to the expectation the start demands.
A very promising premise, doesn't live up to the expectation the start demands.
December 5, 2022
Nice
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February 22, 2019
I thought this was a good book and I like how it flashed back to give additional details on all the characters. However, there were quite a few typos or other errors that were slightly distracting.
December 31, 2019
Not a great book. very movie like. Didnt even finish.
January 15, 2021
This book felt like it was originally a movie that was then made into a book, right down to the action scenes. There is really nothing to do with Taured in this book, apart from the anecdotal intro and conclusion. The author weaves in a bunch of other sci-fi/urban legends into the book, which were interesting elements. But it was long and dragged out. It got interesting but I was still annoyed there was nothing much that was actually about the Man From Taured.
January 2, 2016
I expected a lot more from "the man" in the title, who appeared surprisingly little when one considers the synopsis of the book. Not a bad work, but I wasn't captured. When I learned that Taured wasn't even something from the author's imagination... Well, I guess I was even less impressed!
April 26, 2017
Hmmm, where to begin. For one thing, until the story changes POV, it's pretty good. That's about 40% or so into the story. The rest of the book though was really slow. Agonizingly. I ended up skimming just to find out if everyone really does die. Sadly, no.
I'm not quite sure what it is. It's not horror, or paranormal, or steampunk, or scifi, though there are brief moments of each.
It might have been cool to turn each of the POV's loose and write a series of shorter books in chronological order without trying to turn each into a channeled entity or whatever. Yeah.
I'm not quite sure what it is. It's not horror, or paranormal, or steampunk, or scifi, though there are brief moments of each.
It might have been cool to turn each of the POV's loose and write a series of shorter books in chronological order without trying to turn each into a channeled entity or whatever. Yeah.
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