Thoughts on Nietzche?

A crazy genius. Some try to walk the line between those two states, but he straddled it fearlessly like a titanic demi god. His writing is extremely compelling even when you find yourself disagreeing with him. Probably could've developed a cult of personality if he'd taken to politics rather than philosophy. Perhaps more than any great philosopher, Nietzsche has found his way into the popular cultural consciousness, often without many even knowing the ideas originated with him (though some ideas weren't necessarily originally his, per say, he was the one that popularized them). If you've read ideas about the death of God, of facing down nihilism with self-determination, of transcending cultural norms to be kind of superhuman, of truth being largely relative, etc. it's probably due to Nietzsche. Everyone with even a passing interest in philosophy should at least read Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which is probably his most substantial work.

Actually, right now you can get most of Nietzsche's writings on Kindle for $8 in two volumes: HERE and HERE. At $2 the Portable Nietzsche is a steal and contains TSZ.