This book helped me a lot through my course in Biochemistry. There was only one issue with this book! It was too heavy to carry around! LOL
Otherwise, it was very well organised and quite well-written with all the pictures and illustrations to help with the understanding of some basic concepts in biochemistry. :)
There is no easy way to teach biochemistry, the subject is simply vast and atrociously detailed. However, textbooks can be a great asset to try to provide a big-picture view of the almost too-detailed molecular understanding of biochemistry. In this aspect, this book fulfilled its job. Since I did not use the exercises found at the end of the chapters, I cannot comment on their quality. However, as a reference material I found the book to be more than adequate. I would definitely recommend it to anyone seriously interested in biochemistry; however, it is not a light read by any stretch of the imagination.
Great book! I greatly appreciated the paragraphs that were given titles that reflected the topic in that paragraph. It helped to study: one could just read the title and consider re-studying the item or checking it off as "OK, I know that". My edition had an error in the DNA polymerases, which transpired during my exam. I suppose (hope) my professor passed it on.
Biochemistry is one of favor and is best trying to understand what is biology and chemistry, whoever interest in biochemistry should read this book, can help anyone understand the subject much better.