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The Man Who Haunted Himself
- Narrated by: Adam Lazzare White
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Dr. Douglass Garnett is about to break all the rules to save himself—and push mankind into the future.
He’s one of America’s most brilliant neuroscientists. He’s also Black and dying of cancer. But he has a plan—a brain transfer. He’ll put his gifted mind into the body of Sammy Sturgeon, a White high school football star who was on the rise until a touchdown collision left him brain-dead.
He convinces his co-conspirator, Dr. Dino Battaglia, to help him with the forbidden procedure. Douglass wakes up in Sammy’s White, athletic body, with his new family and legions of fans weeping at his miraculous recovery.
As Douglass starts his life anew at Junipero Prep, complications ensue. There’s the messy breakup with Sammy’s blonde cheerleader girlfriend; then there’s an even messier relationship with his high school science teacher, Marie. Before he can win the Nobel Prize—or be charged with murder—Douglass’ transplant will force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about race, progress, and life in America.
The Man Who Haunted Himself is a new sci-fi-horror classic from legendary author Ishmael Reed, who The New Yorker dubbed “America’s most fearless satirist”. Reed continues the literary tradition of California noir established by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and issues a new entry into the genre he helped launch, Afrofuturism. This hilariously subversive Audible Original is expertly narrated by Adam Lazarre-White (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal).
Does the body or the brain make the man? Listen and find out.

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- SusannaBarnes
- 11-21-22
Not good at all
Used as a platform not as a novel
So disappointed. Wish I could “un-hear” it.
12 people found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 11-22-22
This is pure bigotry
The reader perfectly conveys the angry bigotry of the story, audible should fire they’re selection staff before to many people leave.
11 people found this helpful
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- Cornelia
- 11-29-22
Racistical story
I have no clue what Mr.Reed wanted to accomplish with this garbage! I got this book by being misled it would be a thriller, instead I found that this ,I have no word what to call this, is trying to divide our country and it’s people even more, the last thing we need .
To the author himself’ Racism goes both ways!’ I deeply believe in equality of ALL human kind, but I found myself getting upset more each day getting stuff , like this here , shoved down my throat,forcefully! Why can’t we all just be? Are there racists out there? Of cause, but again it’s not only against non whites. We need to let COLORS and FEATURES, Religion and creed go and live each other more! Instead Mr. Reed concentrates on whites which are dying off, further the intended worldwide division of us against each other
As a human being I’m offended by this work of hatred and CANNOT, WILL NOT recommend this piece of lies recommend ever.
If you’re playing with the thought to read,listen to this”BOOK!!??!!??” I advise you to be prepared to get pissed with every word in this
A writer should take us away from hatred, maybe teach us gently to love each other, not to rile up more hatred!
SHAME ON MR.REED!
8 people found this helpful
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- Gilbert M. Stack
- 11-22-22
Interesting but Not Likeable
This is a difficult book—interesting but not truly likeable. The problems start with the main character, Garnett, who is something of a sociopath interested only in money. He’s also a genius with amazing scientific gifts, but he has no ethical compass at all to help him use his talents in a responsible way. For example, as a child he kidnaps a neighbor, ties him up, and is preparing to try and switch his brain with a cat’s. That experience (and the boy was not playing, the cat brain had already been removed) should have led to him being institutionalized and getting serious help, but his mother merely bribes the parents of the other child so that her son will not suffer any consequences. It should not surprise the reader, therefore, that when the boy grows up, he decides to save his own life by having his brain transferred into the basically healthy body of a high school football player who is brain dead but otherwise physically okay. He doesn’t bother to get anyone’s permission. He just acts as he wants to do.
Then the story gets even more difficult. For Garnett, an African American man, is now inside the body of a white bully who is a member of the most racist white supremacist family living in America’s most racist white supremist community. There is no subtlety here—just the sort of offensive interactions that you see in civil rights documentaries when Governor Bull Connor is setting the dogs loose on protestors and swearing that blacks will never enter white schools. It’s completely over the top and actually diminishes the opportunity Reed is trying to create to discuss some important issues in our society. And keep in mind that the voice through which he is trying to make the case that racism is wrong (something every American should agree with) is someone he purposely made thoroughly dislikable.
There was one scene that I found touching as it unfolded. Garnett talks a young man out of bring a gun into their school and killing a bunch of people. But when thinking back on the scene, I had to ask myself, why did Garnett care? It was out of character for this utterly self-absorbed person to put himself out without some profit for himself. So the best scene in the book was actually poorly written.
6 people found this helpful
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- jaromp
- 12-03-22
Straight propaganda poorly disguised as a story
Poorly written trash that attempts to insert political taglines every other sentence while attempting to tell a ridiculously terrible story.
2 people found this helpful
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- Betsey
- 12-02-22
Narrated with no emotional inflection and a story that has potential but wastes time
What if a black genius transferred their brain into a rich white high school jocks body? Hopefully something more interesting than this.
This story had a lot of potential but wanders off to name drop and include details on things that do nothing to progress the story. Normally this doesn’t bother me, but after a 10 minute backstory to a portrait in a room that isn’t even mentioned I was ready to quit. Just include a PDF of all the things you want cite, I don’t need the address for a print shop that’s not even where the character is! It’s felt more like trying to return favors or paid advertisements than world building.
I’m not sure if the author is trying to be satirical, but it’s so woke it does more harm to any messages they want to send than help. Powerful information sandwiched between unimportant details and character building that serves little purpose.
The narration also hurt the book because it’s all read in the same deadpan emotionless tone. They talked of the sister self harming in the same tone that someone earlier toasted a character.
2 people found this helpful
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- Robert
- 12-01-22
B.L.M.
I think this could have been a good book, but I stopped listening when it was said that after a cop kills a black person, gets fired moves to a new department and all his new "brother" cops praise him and look up to him, went too far. I don't believe that happens especially in this day and age. This book is to LEFT leaning for me. I think this would have been a good story.
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- Fre2be
- 11-25-22
Loved it!
This story was excellent! The author weaves in historical and contemporary elements that propelled the story and engaged the reader into believing that everything that happened was possible.
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- Raistlin Hughes
- 11-21-22
it was a good story
it was a good story and it was performed well I just didn't enjoy the story
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- Anonymous User
- 01-14-23
A little preachy
Very good! Interesting and opinionated! Calling attention to contradictory social issues with no real solutions
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- Glezza
- 01-27-23
Very interesting story
A very interesting story but it isn’t a horror story it’s more a statement about how society works!
I enjoyed it nonetheless!
Liked the reader gave the story plenty of pace!
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- Afshan M
- 12-23-22
Brilliant idea but…
I really enjoyed this book - it’s a great idea and brilliant in parts but abit too simplistic in other parts. Could be totally brilliant with some strong editing and adding characters with a little more depth- loved all the info re minority groups and the history
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The world has changed. Now, when someone is murdered, they almost always come back to life—and there are professionals, called “dispatchers”, who kill in order to save lives, to give those near the end a second chance. Tony Valdez is a dispatcher, and he has never been busier. But for as much as the world has changed, some things have stayed the same. Greed, corruption, and avarice are still in full swing.
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The best Dispatcher story yet ....
- By Sharon on 09-02-22
By: John Scalzi
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He Who Fights with Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure
- He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 1
- By: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
- Narrated by: Heath Miller
- Length: 28 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s not easy making the career jump from office-supplies-store middle manager to heroic interdimensional adventurer. At least, Jason tries to be heroic, but it's hard to be good when all your powers are evil. He’ll face off against cannibals, cultists, wizards, monsters...and that’s just on the first day. He’s going to need courage, he’s going to need wit, and he’s going to need some magic powers of his own. But first, he’s going to need pants.
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Great!
- By tb3 on 03-10-21
By: Shirtaloon, and others
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The Dispatcher
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Zachary Quinto
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.
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IT'S HARD TO GET MYSTICAL ABOUT YOUR JOB
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 10-05-16
By: John Scalzi
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Outland
- Quantum Earth, Book 1
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Original Recording
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When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Bill Rustad and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal. They connect to Outland - an alternate Earth with identical geology, but where humans never evolved. The group races to establish control of the portal before the government, the military, or evildoers can take it away. Then everything changes when the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts in an explosion large enough to destroy civilization and kill half the planet.
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I made myself finish. Glad I did.
- By RJPF on 05-26-19
By: Dennis E. Taylor
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Earthside
- Quantum Earth, Book 2
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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The Yellowstone super-eruption has put an end to modern civilization. As cities and countries continue to fall, the colony of Rivendell in the alternate Earth known as Outland looks more and more like the only real hope for humanity. But life in Rivendell isn’t getting any simpler, either. Bill and Kevin continue to discover new worlds; the population continues to rise; winter is approaching; and everyone has their own opinion about how things should be run.
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Good, but let down by angry politics
- By Tom Scharf on 01-28-23
By: Dennis E. Taylor
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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Pure Science Fiction
- By Leif on 05-04-21
By: Andy Weir
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Travel by Bullet
- The Dispatcher, Book 3
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Zachary Quinto
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Original Recording
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The world has changed. Now, when someone is murdered, they almost always come back to life—and there are professionals, called “dispatchers”, who kill in order to save lives, to give those near the end a second chance. Tony Valdez is a dispatcher, and he has never been busier. But for as much as the world has changed, some things have stayed the same. Greed, corruption, and avarice are still in full swing.
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The best Dispatcher story yet ....
- By Sharon on 09-02-22
By: John Scalzi
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He Who Fights with Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure
- He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 1
- By: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
- Narrated by: Heath Miller
- Length: 28 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
It’s not easy making the career jump from office-supplies-store middle manager to heroic interdimensional adventurer. At least, Jason tries to be heroic, but it's hard to be good when all your powers are evil. He’ll face off against cannibals, cultists, wizards, monsters...and that’s just on the first day. He’s going to need courage, he’s going to need wit, and he’s going to need some magic powers of his own. But first, he’s going to need pants.
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Great!
- By tb3 on 03-10-21
By: Shirtaloon, and others
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The Dispatcher
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Zachary Quinto
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.
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IT'S HARD TO GET MYSTICAL ABOUT YOUR JOB
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 10-05-16
By: John Scalzi
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Outland
- Quantum Earth, Book 1
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Bill Rustad and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal. They connect to Outland - an alternate Earth with identical geology, but where humans never evolved. The group races to establish control of the portal before the government, the military, or evildoers can take it away. Then everything changes when the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts in an explosion large enough to destroy civilization and kill half the planet.
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I made myself finish. Glad I did.
- By RJPF on 05-26-19
By: Dennis E. Taylor
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House of Earth and Blood
- Crescent City, Book 1
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night - until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She'll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose - to assassinate his boss' enemies, no questions asked.
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What a disappointment
- By Hollie Morales on 03-09-20
By: Sarah J. Maas
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Columbus Day
- Expeditionary Force, Book 1
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.
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WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-04-17
By: Craig Alanson
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He Who Fights with Monsters 8
- A LitRPG Adventure (He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 8)
- By: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
- Narrated by: Heath Miller
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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After a much longed-for reunion, Jason Asano works on moving past old traumas as he looks to a brighter future. Despite warnings of danger that awaits him, he gets back in the saddle as an adventurer, ready to tackle new challenges. But as enemies that have lurked in the background start moving into the light, those challenges are not hard to find.
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Explanations Kill the Tempo
- By Anonymous User on 12-13-22
By: Shirtaloon, and others