What's wrong with the world?

[Drakill Tannan]

I've just seen Edgar Allan Poe's complete narrations in a single book of about 700 pages sold for $13 dollars, quite hidden among other books. What other books do you ask? Twilight, the graphic novel, of about 200 pages, worth $22 dollars.

Seriously!?

[The Boom King]

But edgar allen poe doesn't have any gay vampires in his stories.

[UnholyWon]

Depends when the printing was, what edition the printing is, I doubt this was in a collectors store since Twilight was there.

Reprints of classics are extremely cheap because they are made for mass consumption for the public. I would think the price spot on.

Nothing is wrong with the world, the availability of classic writings are far more numerous then before and reasonable with their price.

[lovethesuit]

I have that.

The first one, not the gay one.

[Cluckyx]

But edgar allen poe doesn't have any gay vampires in his stories.

^ this

V And

http://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight

[Luke Danger]

http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=The+count+punch+twilight#/d2pfh4o

[Pup]

People are stupid and they generally suck.  It's kind of amazing we're all still here, IMO.

My misanthropic two cents.

P.S. --  I own the complete works of Poe also, but I paid 17$ for it.  Nothing like an author terrified of being buried alive.

[Porkolt]

An editor that publishes the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe doesn't have to pay royalties. If they project the same amount of profit on the book as they would on Twilight, it only stands to reason Poe would be cheaper.

[Drakill Tannan]

It would pay $50 for Poe's work. It's wroth it. People see a huge cheap book and guess it must suck "Who is Edgar allan poe anyway" they ask themselves, but when things as the twilight crap is propoted so much, people think that is good literature. A book as the one i bought should be on display on the center, and cost a lot, and people would think "ohh, this author must be important" and read it, and guess what? he is important! But instead we see the series that murdered vampire novels, wich i enjoyed much, before meyer began writing her wet dreams.

I hate her so much..

[VanillaPudding]

*sparkles*

[Calculor]

You idiots don't even know what you are talking about. Poe was a hackneyed poser whose works recycled the pulpy "woman's novel" of the eighteenth century, and not in a clever or even vaguely interesting way. People just say they enjoy his work because they want to appear cultured, and honestly just have no taste or the vaguest idea about good literature.

Twilight, on the other hand, is a brilliant commentary on both the archetypal Romeo and Juliet story and the often cliched Gothic genre that Poe so callously mined. From this base, it delves into a wealth of timeless themes: love, mortality, celebrity, religion, and the nature of man to name a few. The fact that it is written at a sixth grade reading level is a social commentary that I'm surprised more of you didn't pick up on, but c'est la vie.

[BrittanyPanthas]

Calc has received fresh perspective from his trip to kinky kingdoms.

Next up, Calc proclaims The Vampire Diaries to be the greatest TV series of all time.

[Wern8]

Calculor is an utter disgrace to civilization. I am embarrassed to call him a fellow DM. : (

[Semli]

... lol

[Thomas_Not_very_wise]

Praise Calculor. He who tried to ban romance from efu.