Also Sprach Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

Advantages: can be hilarious; fascinating story and characters
Disadvantages: might need translator's notes; isn't this fiction rather?

...novel, Thus Spake Zarathustra or Also Sprach Zarathustra. I read over the last page several times and think I understand the whole thing enough to give you a satisfactory report, but, of course, I could be wrong. If you are already incensed with mirth, I do understand. Some of you could probably teach rings around me when it comes to Nietzsche. For those of you who, like me, have been deprived of this philosopher writer’s profundity, I think you’ll ...
...possible… Zarathustra is thirty years old when he leaves home for the mountains to enjoy solitude for ten years. Now his fortieth birthday really strikes a nerve. Suddenly he’s not happy with the way life is going and he soliloquizes (had to look up the spelling!) about how God has died and man must be better than his human nature. He sets out for the forest below, searching among men for the “higher” man or “overman” rather than a superman. Preaching ... Read review