Title: The book is trash
Product review: While there surely is a "wealth" of exercises, the book seems like it should be a rough draft at best. The style is heavily fragmented, and it varies from section to section. (Note to authors: please indicate with a square\diamond\some geometric figure where your proofs end and the prose begins.) There is little motivation of the concepts-- and the motivation given is usually very vague. Some definitions of concepts are repeated many times over, while others are only informally described in passing (and these are usually the most important concepts, e.g. "conjugacy class" in the chapters on group theory.)In short, this book is terrible. Please note that I do not attribute my dislike of this book to a lack in mathematical rigor; rather, I have found several other algebra books that are dense in their own right, yet are 10x more readable than this waste of acid-free paper.
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