germccann

I recommend “The Portable Nietzsche” by Walter Kaufmann as a great introduction to Nietzsche’s philosophy. Kaufmann provides loads of backround information on Nietzsche’s philosophy as it develops through his major works. In the book, he also gives really useful introductions to all of the books as well as explaining some of the more complex passages.

Most importantly though, Kaufmann’s book includes the FULL text of Nietzsche’s four major works: “Twilight of the Idols”, “The Antichrist”, “Nietzsche Contra Wagner”, and “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”. Kaufmann also includes soe important passages from Nietzsche’s other works.

Having read Kaufmann’s book from start to finish, I was inspired to buy a few more of Nietzsche’s books and read them, too.

I’d say that I’ve now developed a cursory understanding of Nietzsche’s philosophy. What I need to next is go back over each of the books and re-read them to gain a deeper understanding of the great man’s philosophy.

I really want to eat sushi at least once per week at lunctime in work. The only difficulty is that the only shop I know that sells it near work is quite far away, and the sushi is quite expensive.

The walk there would do me good, and if i gave up smoking, I’d be able to put the cash I used to spend killing myself with cigarettes on my sushi instead.

I really want to do this soon!

...but be ready to give up a lot of time on getting up to speed on it all. Getting a good VB guide book is an absolute pre-requisite! After that, expect to spend a fair amount of time tinkering to get your programs working as you intend them to do. When you get something working, though, it’s a massive feeling of satisfaction.

For example, I bought a Nintendo DS a while back to play the brain training games and stimulate my under-exercised intellect. While the brain training on the DS is great, I thought I could get a little more from some of the exercises if I re-created them on my home PC and made a few changes to customise them for my own mental development/stimulation. The new programs took a while to develop, but now that I’ve finished them, they are absolutely great. (The development of my programs was a great mental workout, too.)