CLRS is in fact over 1000 pages, but it's not very dense, quite the opposite. It goes in painstaking detail about every single minutia you could possibly be thinking of, often formally proving things that everyone with even a modicum of mathematical education should be able to independently come up with a proof for (white path theorem, anyone?).
All of that is great for beginners (there's a reason it's a standard textbooks), but I remember that even when I was in school I found it a little too verbose and used to prefer the Sedgewick.
With that said, I still agree that the author's timetable is very optimistic.
CLRS is in fact over 1000 pages, but it's not very dense, quite the opposite. It goes in painstaking detail about every single minutia you could possibly be thinking of, often formally proving things that everyone with even a modicum of mathematical education should be able to independently come up with a proof for (white path theorem, anyone?).
All of that is great for beginners (there's a reason it's a standard textbooks), but I remember that even when I was in school I found it a little too verbose and used to prefer the Sedgewick.
With that said, I still agree that the author's timetable is very optimistic.