Should I read his books or is he just bat shit crazy?

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Evola is probably best for individuals who are disillusioned with modern moral and political discourse; who think the Weberian, bureaucratic, technological world is metaphysically untenable and based on the anathema of an integrated social and spiritual order; who find the only remnants of a right-oriented order are lunar, obsessed with nature and skin, Darwinism and petty patriotism; and who find the utopias of the Marxists to be fanciful, conceding to and perpetuating the same ideological perversions of its materialist predecessors, ignoring all metaphysical and higher justification for man.

well, Evola's work is highly allusive and his interpretations of other thinkers, of history and religious traditions are idiosyncratic. So you're best off if you've already read Kant before you read Evola on Kant, Plato before you read Evola on Plato, the Pali Canon before you read Evola on Buddhism, etcetera. He's weird and he has a strong agenda so it's not good to be introduced to anything you don't already know through Evola.