>>13543987Aluffi os a totally fine book. I have done every exercise in up until his chapter on field theory, where I got a little burnt out and switched to the excerises he marks as essential instead.
Here is what you do, read the first bit to learn what a category is, and then ignore anything he says about products, coproducts, fibered whatevers, the differences between mono/epimorphisms and inject/surjectivity, etc... There are better places to learn about these considerations and it's more or less just aluffi jerking himself off.
On the chapters themselves, 5 on UFDs is really really boring, and the homological one at the end might as well be skipped in favor of a standalone book if you needed to know it. Similarly, if you really needed a lot of galois theory, you'd need a standalone book.
All in all aluffi is a less dry dummit and Foote with no representation theory. It has errata out the ass but the exercises are pretty good. If aluffi ever puts out his chapter 1, then them together would be a good replacement for jacobson
