Biochemistry Description:

Biochemistry review:
4 stars (This Chemistry Major Loves It) - As a chemistry major at Baylor University, I like to have a set of textbooks on the side to refer to when studying for my classes. I appreciate the detail that V&V went into while writing this book, and I do find it very fitting for my major. There are also plenty of illustrations to fit to the material, and I find them quite helpful. If you are a chem major looking for a little more information, I would recommend this text.




5 stars (Great Book) - I am a pharmacy student and this book has done wonders! It explains everything very well.
1 stars (Detailed but no depth) - This is the main text for second semester biochemistry at Yale University. Compared to Lehninger, it is more detailed and very up to date but it lacks discussion on basic principles and fails to treat any of the topics deeply. Because it attempts to consolidate a good amount of recent material, it ends up presenting data that has not been confirmed. Sometimes the author presents a caveat regarding whether a theory is backed or not, but more often this becomes implicit and the reader quickly finds himself looking many of the experiments up for confirmation. Overall this is a decent book for information, but I would not recommend it when there are so many better books out there.