Books / Book 541
Date: 2006-10-10 (permlink)
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Name: Näin Puhui Zarathustra (Also Sprach Zarathustra)
Rating: 1.5 stars

Nietzsche is not a mere philosopher, he's an iconic concept, and I have read lots of quotes from him that I've liked, so I had high hopes for this book.

What I expected was a treatise on the superiority of rationality over superstitions with some fun überman ideas thrown in. Instead I got 460 pages of incoherent "fiction" from which I was supposed to extract his philosophies. Also, I don't know how the German original reads, but the Finnish translation is practically unreadable as the words and sentence structures are so archaic.

I think I'll skip on reading any more Nietzsche; I can find better ways to use my time than this.