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Algebraic Geometry (Dover Books on Mathematics)

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I bought this book because I want and need to know about this subject.
I have come to really dislike this book and this author, because
although some of the information I want is here, it is presented so badly, it is very hard work to get it. It is mathematics authorship like this that gives math a bad name.
This text was written in the '50's before the Deligne breakthroughs in this area and the later concentration on Calabi-Yau Algebraic varieties
in the area of mirror symmetry. He uses K for R ( real) and KP_n
for projective spaces, but mostly he is just sloppy about notation for sums and even vectors. His definitions always seem to leave me wondering what exactly he means. Mostly he leaves me wanting a book to explain his book. As a cheap starting place for Algebraic Geometry, you may want to pass this one up until you read something better?