[sampo]

> Landau's books

Landau's presentation is extremely condensed. Griffiths is much more friendly towards the reader.

I would compare Landau to Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Some people do read them, but the rest of us just hold them in extremely high regard :-).

[jeffwass]

The Landau Lifshitz series is absolutely amazing. It works so well with my brain, entirely concise with just enough textual clarification as needed.

Eg, volume 1 is classical mechanics. By page 3 or so you e already derived the Lagrangian equations of motion.