The Will to Power (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) Book

What can I say about a book that I enjoyed the experience of reading but would never recommend to folks unless I knew them very well?

Social conventions would dictate: admit that you've read it when at a dinner party & then shuffle the conversation back to Dickens, the lovely Mr. Gaiman or newest Superhero movie. "Leave it alone, don't pick!", your conscience would say.

Well, here on GR, we can pick; it's what we do. Will to Power's a great book. Period. It's also frightfully creepy. It's loaded with enough logical arguments to freak out a conformist of any self assigned warren. I'd recommend as the book to start with for anyone who'd like to seriously begin reading Nietzsche. Since this book contains his notebook in a logically organized fashion, anything else by him surely is easier to read. Will to Power has many outlines for his basic frameworks. This makes it highly quotable. It also introduces you to his thoughts at their beginning stages. From here, you can move on to his finished early works and eventually his later ones. But don't listen to me, just take your own gander, decide for yourself if & where you'd like to begin reading Nietzsche.

On Context:
Pushkin's poems are a natural beauty, filled with wisdom & nature imagery. But Solzhenitsyn's prose beats us over the head with how context can be distorted by simply taking a line of Pushkin's poem and injecting it into the most horrific situations. Suddenly a line of beauty becomes a sign of terror.

Nietzsche's ideas were also taken horribly out of context to his own dismay in his lifetime. Reading Will to Power in the context of the lines around each line gives us the complete picture of what he's saying. Nietzsche's ideas out of context leads to mini tyrants with simple birdlike thoughts. No offence to birds.

My Blog Review:
The Will to Power: Context is Key