Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardner - Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning Which Are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential calc

Pros: Amusing; welcoming; full of helpful tips, easy-to-picture examples, and useful problem sets.
Cons: Not adequate, in itself, to replace a 4-year engineering degree program.

As grateful as I am to Martin Gardner, the longtime Scientific American columnist, for revisi ...

Pros: (none)
Cons: Outdated, confusing, few/vague proofs

Having seen this book extolled on Amazon.com, I bought this after finishing pre-calculus in Spring 1999 to serve as an introduction to calculus. I was terribly disappointed to find that this isn't what it's cracked up to be; it's confusing and outdated,...

Pros: catchy title
Cons: not as easy, hard to follow

I picked up Calculus Made Easy after I had finished my pre-calculus class. I wanted to get a head start on Calculus which I would be taking the next semester.
I was very dissapointed with the book. It was not nearly as easy as you would assume from...