> paragraphs that could be studied and independently

Yes, but after reading BGE, I felt like I had to read all his other books to really understand what he was saying (and others too, Kant, Spinoza, etc). And then re-read BGE.

Also Walter Kauffman's on him is very good. Working through that now.

yeah a lot of uneducated analysis was off, but it was still very thought provoking and jarring to my earlier world view.

it depends on which chapters/sections though, some are more accessible than others.

one book I enjoyed is:

"The Mask of Enlightenment" by stanley rosen. I read that along Zarathustra