The Satanic Bible starts off so strong. I've always admired the core principles of Satanism, and related to the ideas of everyone having to be their own god, rejecting the shame and fear brought on by religion etc., and the beginning of this book is really deep in that philosophy. LaVey isn't the most original, and his writing is extremely eye-roll worthy, but he has good points.

But then he keeps talking, and spirals instead into a bunch of nonsense and sexism, which had me nearly giving up halfway through, and then really just skimming through the last 150 pages or so. I want to just take the first 65 pages, bind them into their own book, and toss the rest in the trash.