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Title: Overhyped garbage
Review: If you're looking to LEARN algorithms this is not the book for you. The authors' writing style is excruciatingly verbose and the structure is haphazard. I do not understand why algorithms exhibiting similar techniques (e.g. dynamic, greedy, etc) are not clustered together. Another peeve is the fact that critical parts of proofs and explanations are left to the reader. And of course, there is no solution manual available to the public.So if you would like to learn algorithms, please check out Anany V. Levitin's book. Although his writing style may be considered simplistic he conveys the information in a style suitable for learning. I hope the authors (CLRS) will one day realize that simplicity is elegant.
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