Title: Overly verbose
Review: This book is rather verbose; proofs are often unnecessarily long and are more complex than necessary. There are also some errors and some of the proofs are flawed. While the verbosity is no doubt intended to make the material more accessible it has the opposite effect since it tends to obscure the intuition behind the material even if it is easier to follow the individual steps. The book seems to often try to avoid the central ideas for fear that they will be too hard for the student.The parts of the book on groups and rings are ok (though not great) but once the book gets into extension fields, Sylow theory and Galois theory things start to go downhill quickly. Artin's algebra book is much better.
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