I once went to a CS convention and there was a booth with this book at the table. I mentioned recognizing the book, and the guy at the table asked how I liked it. I said it was thorough but far too dense. That other textbooks got the basic concepts that would be covered in a typical semester of Algorithms in a much more approachable and (most importantly for my old back injury) transportable way.
He was one of the authors! He just laughed and said he got that a lot.
I once went to a CS convention and there was a booth with this book at the table. I mentioned recognizing the book, and the guy at the table asked how I liked it. I said it was thorough but far too dense. That other textbooks got the basic concepts that would be covered in a typical semester of Algorithms in a much more approachable and (most importantly for my old back injury) transportable way.
He was one of the authors! He just laughed and said he got that a lot.