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Title: Generally poor, but there aren't good alternatives
Review: Many consider this book the "Bible" for graduate level analysis. Unfortunately, the dialect used is somewhat obstruse. It is a bit less terse than "little Rudin" (Introduction to Analysis), but is a bit spotty in comprehensiveness.The problem is that the alternatives have problems. Simon Hall's book doesn't give as many proofs and doesn't cover the subject matter as much (dealing more with functional analysis). Royden is probably better, but I have not read it much, and I think it is less advanced from what I hear. Folland didn't excite me either.Maybe it is just a difficult subject to write a good text on, but I bet someone will come along and write a better one to take over, like Gallian replaced Herstein in algebra.
