[jacobolus]

I assume he's talking about the first of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Serge-Lang/dp/038795385X/

http://www.amazon.com/Undergraduate-Algebra-Texts-Mathematic...

Michael Artin's book is also a decent text aimed mostly at undergraduates:

http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Michael-Artin/dp/0130047635/

[mnemonicsloth]

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.