Did you like Artin? My first-year class in field & Galois theory started with the Artin text, and by mid-semester I started daydreaming about ripping out rando

Did you like Artin? My first-year class in field & Galois theory started with the Artin text, and by mid-semester I started daydreaming about ripping out random pages and mailing them to the author. But I don't like colloquial exposition, so YMMV.