As far as the material goes, this book is well written. It's easy to read and easy to follow, and full of diagrams and pictures that not only relate to the subject matter, they also break up the text and give your mind a bit of a break from straight reading. But let's be honest... if you're buying this book, you're most likely a college student buying it because you have to, so what you care about is saving money. In that respect, I paid about $100 for this book NEW from amazon when my book store wanted $140 for it USED!! So it doesn't take stoichiometry to figure out that this was a GREAT buy!! (Yeah, lame chemistry joke...lol)

This book is about 1/4 the size of the average Intro/Freshman Chem class, and so is about 1/4 of the information. This book does a DECENT job on BASIC principles of chemistry, but like has been said before, a good chemistry professor might aid in the understanding these principles. If using this book for a Freshman Chemistry class with the intent to move to Organic Chemistry, you might be in a tad bit of trouble.

In short: Too short, little detail. Seems elementary compared to most chemistry books

Although this book may be useful as a reference, it is a disaster if you are new to chemistry and don't have a professor, who could explain some topics from this book.
In order to understand the book's problems you have to buy separately a solution manual.