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Title: Very confusing most of the time
Review: I dislike the book for two main reason:1)the author hides information in essay-style paragraphs which usually end in phrases like, "thus, we have proved...". If you are lucky, he will somewhere state the theorem.2) because of 1) it serves as a poor reference book, which is the main subsequent value of a text after you have taken the course with it.I do share some of the enthusiasm that Richard has for the book, but only for those parts of the book that I already understood from previous work. We actually took the class together at UC Santa Barbara. And from what I remember, Richard was one of the few students who had anything good to say about the book. I think a better graduate text is Hungerford's or Grove's ("Algebra").
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