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Review title: Not a good read
Product review: Even though I already knew the material, I found this book painfully slow to read. The author habitually writes in sentences that are runon, convoluted, repetitive, and indirect. I kept reading passages over and over to sort out what he was saying. That goes double for the proofs.There is just not a clear unfolding of ideas at the sentence, paragraph, or chapter levels. It is even uninviting to look at; the layout is cramped and the notation is unnecessarily elaborate. The only point I can say in its favor is that it covers more material than most texts, as it is designed for a one-year course.
