Organic Chemistry 3rd Ed Books

Pros: detailed pictures, helpful problems, sells cheap for its size, nice reaction summaries
Cons: weak presentation of mechanisms with emphasis on memorization (which is not humanly possible)

I have had quite a long companionship with this organic chemistry textbook - it was requires for the whole year, so I've covered it from the table of contents to the table of index. My overall impression was that this textbook does nothing more than imped ...