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While this book is amazingly in-depth and would serve as a fine reference, it is far from a usable textbook. The excessive details serve to confound and obscure rather than enlighten. The writing is difficult to follow and unnecessarily weighty, often with ridiculously compounded and overly complicated sentence structure. The text often references diagrams several pages distant, occassionally even several chapters distant. Reading the book is akin to listening to a well-meaning and brilliant, but scatterbrained professor ramble on about his favorite obscure molecular level process. Students beware!

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This is the best ever book i have gone through, which is good for a beginner to learn the biological aspects of the universe. this makes far easier to teach the cell-biology course follwing this book. the CD also helps a lot to understand it properly.

Obviously, there are plenty of good reviews for The Cell and shouldn't require anymore to convey the point that it's a wonderful book. However, having just completed it, I can't resist adding another...
The Cell (4th Ed.) is by far the most informative and most well-organized book I've ever had the privilege of reading. It's well written, clear and concise (regarding each of its many topics), and would be accessible to anyone with just a slight familiarity with organic chem.
It took me three months to get through its 1462 pages, without skipping as much as a sentence, and it still left me desiring more when it finally came to end. It was THAT perfect.

I don't feel a need to address the subject matter specifically in this review. If you're considering reading this book, chances are you already know its contents. If not, check out any of the many in-depth reviews above & below.

I spent $20 for overnight shipping and I ended up getting the book a week and half later. That caused me to get a C- on my first exam. Fedex actually ended up sending the book to the wrong person. Never us them, unless you want late stuff.