I'm Surprised no one else has mentioned this:
'The Satanic Bible' by Anton Lavey

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Bible)

Ok, so it didn't actually change my life (since I've been doing the stuff mentioned in the book for years), and in actual fact I have only just started reading it, but its still an interesting an empowering book.

I'ts more of a prop so that if people spot it they think I'm sort of devil worshipping nutter intent of sacrificing chickens and the like.

Muhahahahahaha!!
(ldwater otherwise known as a 'jive turkey', Wed 21 May 2008, 13:31, 3 replies)

I thought I'd mentioned it
but may have imagined it

it was an interesting read, and did work as a good prop.

Seem to recall that I prefered the Devil's Notebook
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:33, closed)

I liked it too
...but I felt that what was in general really quite sound thinking was undermined by the whole Emperor Ming shit that meant people used the whole thing as a prop to be "scary" and "alternative".

I'm not criticising you for doing that very thing - it was his doing! I suppose that's how he got funding, but LaVey shot himself in the foot in terms of serious critical appraisal by mincing around San Fransisco in a cape...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:45, closed)

I ended up reading it in our sixth form centre
and trying to hide the text on the cover because I got fed up of it being that prop!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:49, closed)