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I suggest the Bronze Age Pervert. He is good example of a modern day Nietzschean that has based takes on a lot of the same subjects as Nietzsche, just updated for the modern day

>>15505553
You could start by running into the Room of the Three Gargoyles. Push in the right tongue, and a door might lead you down a staircase and into the Wall Climb/run across the Troubled Bridge. Here, you must choose your next path. You could race up into the Observatory, spin the sundial, and pass into the Room of the Golden Idols/Treasure Room. Once there, push down their bases to release the doors, that may take you below/there, you'll lift up the treasure chest and climb down through it, or try to enter/lead you into the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. Assemble the statue, and you maybe headed for the Torch Room/Pirate's Cove. If the elevator is up, then you can descend into the Mine Shaft/Spin the ship's wheel, and you can descend into the Dungeon. You can climb up the ladder, or plow through the stone wall, find the key, and it may unlock the Tomb of Ancient Kings, which will allow you to enter the Treacherous Swamp/climb into the Spider's Lair/Next, you could climb into the Swamp. If you escape, then you may have a chance to sit upon the Throne of the Pretender/enter the room of Harmonic Convergence. Stand on the proper two steps, and the doors may open. If the correct door is unlock/stone slab is up, you could crawl/run through the Pit of Despair, and finally make your way through the Cave of Sighs and back through the Temple Gate.

The Gay Science is a very good introduction. If you like it, Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy are his more accessible mature works. The Will to Power and Zarathustra are very rich, but only rewarding if you've understood him beforehand. The rest of his corpus is absolutely worth reading, but those texts are the most important/central.

>>15505553
Don't. Nietzsche is an advanced philosopher who should only be read after you have read other philosophers, because otherwise you will not understand what he is talking about.

Why do you think so many terrible pseuds on this board sound so dumb? It's because they started with Nietzsche and quote him without having any context for the things he's saying.

Before you read Nietzsche, read at least selected readings from all of the following:

Plato
Aristotle
The Bible
Augustine
Martin Luther
Hume
Kant
Hegel
Schopenhauer

You don't need to slog through all of the things that every writer in this list has written. But you do need to be familiar with their ideas and their core concepts. Then, and ONLY then, can you read Nietzsche.

>>15505589
Thanks but isn't Hegel and Kant just as hard to get into?

>>15505571

lol

>>15505553

Have a good amount of background knowledge of philosophy. Maybe start with the plato stanford encyclopedia article, then I would read Beyond Good & Evil, Genealogy of Morals, then Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>>15505589

You do not need to read these philosophers in detail, but at least have background knowledge

basically don't be a brainlet retard and have a sincere interest in understand him, and you should be fine

>>15505553
I think Twilight of the Idols would be a very good starting point. It's short and just attacking other philosophies, so you don't need a ton of grounding in him.

>>15505553
I started with genealogy of morals and honestly its a great way to start