Acerca de Jonathan Davis
La voz constante y familiar de Jonathan Davis, aunque versátil, le ha convertido en el favorito de casi todos los géneros. Se ganó a sus primeros fans con la ciencia ficción, causando gran sensación con Snow Crashde Neal Stephenson (una de sus primeras narraciones), varios títulos de Star Wars, y su actuación de Robert J. Sawyer’s Calculating God, con la que ganó un Audie por mejor ciencia ficción en el 2009.Pero con una variada lista de casi 500 libros a su nombre, la ciencia ficción no es sin duda su única atracción.
Si existe algo así como un clásico de culto no ficticio en audio, bien podría deberse su éxito a Jonathan Davis. Su narración de Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World tomaba un tema a menudo (erróneamente) mitologizado, pero poco conocido, y lo hacía tan apasionante como cualquier thriller. Del mismo modo, su interpretación de la ciencia pop del hit de Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat completamente cautivó a sus oyentes, y su brillante manejo del desvergonzadamente inteligente The Origins of Political Order de Francis Fukuyama, tomó algo que podría parecer superior a tu nivel de paga y lo convirtió en una historia con un arco narrativo atractivo.
Nacido en los Estados Unidos, Davis y su familia se mudaron a San Juan, Puerto Rico cuando tenía cinco años, para vivir cerca de su tío Sholom Secunda, quien era un reconocido compositor de teatro yiddish. "Sholom era un magnífico narrador de historias, que inculcó mi deseo de convertirme en actor ", dice Davis. Esa educación ayudó a equipar a Davis con muchos de los diferentes acentos y dialectos que él aporta a su trabajo. Su fluidez en español, portugués y hebreo le ha permitido impregnar muchas de sus actuaciones con una rica y auténtica autenticidad, de la obra de Chaim Potok The Chosen a The Shadow of the Windde Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Y en The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, El tour de fuerza de Junot Diaz, Davis aporta sabiduría y profundidad a cada personaje, permitiendo que cada uno cobre vida como una persona separada.
Favoritos de los oyentes
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Catalyst (Star Wars)
- A Rogue One Novel
- De: James Luceno
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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The must-have prequel novel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - the upcoming film, set before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, that reveals the untold story of the rebel effort to steal the plans to the Death Star!
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Intriguing prequel to Rogue One.
- De M. S. Valdez en 12-27-16
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Snow Crash
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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Neal Stephenson is a blazing new force on the sci-fi scene. With the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, he has "vaulted onto the literary stage." It weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility - in short, it is the gigathriller of the information age.
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A solid sci-fi novel
- De Brent en 02-05-03
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Cast Under an Alien Sun
- Destiny's Crucible, Book 1
- De: Olan Thorensen
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
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Joe Colsco boarded a flight from San Francisco to Chicago to attend a national chemistry meeting. He would never set foot on Earth again. On planet Anyar, Joe is found unconscious on a beach of a large island inhabited by humans where the level of technology is similar to Earth circa 1700. He awakes amid strangers speaking an unintelligible language and struggles to accept losing his previous life and finding a place in a society with different customs, needing a way to support himself and not knowing a single soul.
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Slowly we turn, step by step, inch by inch...
- De Ron en 09-18-17
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks - introduction
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.
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I rarely stop reading a book halfway through...
- De Rusty en 09-04-15
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Catalyst (Star Wars)
- A Rogue One Novel
- De: James Luceno
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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The must-have prequel novel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - the upcoming film, set before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, that reveals the untold story of the rebel effort to steal the plans to the Death Star!
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Intriguing prequel to Rogue One.
- De M. S. Valdez en 12-27-16
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Snow Crash
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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Neal Stephenson is a blazing new force on the sci-fi scene. With the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, he has "vaulted onto the literary stage." It weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility - in short, it is the gigathriller of the information age.
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A solid sci-fi novel
- De Brent en 02-05-03
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Cast Under an Alien Sun
- Destiny's Crucible, Book 1
- De: Olan Thorensen
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
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Joe Colsco boarded a flight from San Francisco to Chicago to attend a national chemistry meeting. He would never set foot on Earth again. On planet Anyar, Joe is found unconscious on a beach of a large island inhabited by humans where the level of technology is similar to Earth circa 1700. He awakes amid strangers speaking an unintelligible language and struggles to accept losing his previous life and finding a place in a society with different customs, needing a way to support himself and not knowing a single soul.
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Slowly we turn, step by step, inch by inch...
- De Ron en 09-18-17
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks - introduction
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.
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I rarely stop reading a book halfway through...
- De Rusty en 09-04-15
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- De Cynthia en 12-11-13
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Sex at Dawn
- How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
- De: Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson, Jonathan Davis, Christopher Ryan (Preface)
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science - as well as religious and cultural institutions - has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative is collapsing....
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Strawmen and Ad Hominems
- De Carolyn en 09-18-12
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- De: Junot Diaz
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Staci Snell
- Duración: 16 h
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Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA.
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Wondrous Book!!!
- De Robert en 06-22-12
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Count Zero
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D-and the biochip he's perfected-out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties-some of whom aren't remotely human.
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Where've you been all my life?
- De Michael en 01-18-11