Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Not an Intro book

This book is an awful introduction to solid state physics. I would recommend Ashcroft and Mermin's version. Kittel dives right into equations without deriving them at all and assumes prior knowledge of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and E&M. I am a senior engineering college student at the school Kittel taught (UC Berkeley) and we are forced to use his book because it's a "classic" in the field but it is just a terrible book to try to learn from.