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In an effort to
reintroduce works from classic authors to a media savvy generation. When B.J.
was a teenager, he loved the old radio dramatizations of Frankenstein, Works
of Edgar Allan Poe, and the War of the Worlds. He also loved to listen to audiobooks, and owes a great deal of his education to said media. Now,
through The Classic Tales, thousands are listening to Arthur Conan Doyle,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Thomas Hardy.
B.J. also pledges to all who enjoy The Classic Tales, that he will never allow material of an explicit nature into The Classic Tales in any way. His greatest treasures in this world are his children, and he takes personal pride in producing shows that will uplift and inspire, never to degrade. This is what the Classics are to him. This is what the classics can be for all who wish to partake. Treasure Island is one of the greatest adventure novels ever written, and has been a favorite of B.J.'s for many years. B.J. honestly admits he doesn't know how many times he's sailed the high seas with Jim Hawkins and dug for buried treasure with the duplicitous Long John Silver. It seems that all our pirate lore comes from this book: the parrot on the shoulder, the pirate’s curse, the piratical cadence of speech, the treasure map where “X” marks the spot, and “Yo Ho Ho, and a bottle of rum”. What could better complete the adventure than a fine reading of the novel? It’s something he has always wanted to do, and now “chance and accident” have brought it to pass. We hope that the reading of Treasure Island brings these timeless characters to a new generation of thrill seeking, ipod wielding treasure hunters.
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