Reddit mentions of The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

After the Satanic Bible, The Satanic Scriptures by Peter Gilmore or Devil's Notebook by Anton LaVey are great if you want another book directly about Satanism.

If you want to branch out into related philosophical works, I would suggest The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner, The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand or The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche.

Start here.

Come back in a decade after you've read the rest of him, then Heidegger, then Sartre, Barthes, maybe some Saussure, Derrida, Baudrillard and Rorty.

I'm out!

Le this. When Nietzche talked about the ubermensch he meant me!!

Yes it's a real book, but nothing to do with Gay rights obviously http://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-appendix-Translated-commentary-Kaufmann/dp/0394719859

Sensible question! A lot of people read depressing books when they are depressed! It's a bad decision.

The classic of course is Hitchhikers guide, Watzlawick's The Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious. Then: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (chapter: The Preachers of Death), Nietzsche's Gay Science ( Chapter: Sanctus Januarius ! drags you right out of every ditch, it's beautiful life affirmation), Zweig - Decisive Moments In History. Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now made me rather happy too, light at the end of the tunnel for sure. Thoreau's Walden. It is hard I just noticed. I got so many depressing books.

And maybe listen to this

What Would Jesus Deconstruct? and The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event by John Caputo.

Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel.

Origen: An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer, and Selected Works

The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? by Slavoj Zizek and John Milbank

The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich

The Gay Science and The Antichrist by Nietzsche

God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse by Slavoj Zizek and Boris Gunjevic

The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism

After the Death of God by John Caputo and Gianni Vattimo