This is really a great book to read if your prepping up for an interview or in general just want to study algorithms. This book is much more readable as compared to CLRS which is very dense and pedagogical. This book is more like novel as in the author also describes his personal experiences in short snippets called war stories which are pretty fun to read. The second half of the text book describes problems and solutions. If your looking interview prep then the 2nd part of text book would be really helpful.