Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche

Reasoning

I read this book to see if any of Nietzsche's thoughts on his books matched or contrasted greatly with my own, as in either of the two cases there is room to research more, particularly in the latter.

What I Gained

I found some interesting things, how useful any of them are remains to be seen: 

1. Nietzsche was incredibly proud of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, as is clear from some of the quotes I selected from the chapter. I found this odd because I found Thus Spoke Zarathustra very easy to read, and didn't sense any element of pride in it, although maybe this was down to the fact that he wrote it from Zarathustra's perspective rather than in first person.
2. He implies that from Beyond Good and Evil onwards, he wasn't necessarily writing for an audience, rather for himself, which makes me intrigued into reading the Antichrist, given it was written after this point.
3. It seems that Nietzsche's main reason for writing the Gay Science was to build a platform for Thus Spoke Zarathustra to stand on.
4. He predicted that he'd be associated with "the recollection of something frightful - of a crisis like no other before on earth", which turned out to be true due to the Nazis misrepresentation of his work.  

Potentially useful quotes:

Next Steps

I want to read the Antichrist because of it's provocative name and the fact it was written after Nietzsche wrote "From now on all my writings are fish-hooks: perhaps I understand fishing as well as anyone? … If nothing got caught I am not to blame. There were no fish…"