Reddit reviews Organic Chemistry, 6th Edition

Ochem: Grab an old Morrison & Boyd book for sub $20 and go through the chapters that correspond to the Ochem 1 syllabus of previous years. M&B is so far the best no-bullshit way to instruct organic chemistry, and it's a goddamn shame UTD profs don't use it, because the rest of the textbook out there I've come across kinda suck.You can find it cheaper, but this is the edition I bought for myself after I borrowed and used my dad's 2nd edition book for my undergrad. https://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-6th-Robert-Morrison/dp/0136436692

You're not clear about what you want to learn in chemistry -- do you want to do more practical stuff (organic synthesis / physical chemistry) or do you just want to know how molecules/atoms behave (organic chemistry ,biochemistry, physical chemistry , quantummechanics?

Wrt to doing synthesis 'on your own': these days, doing chemistry outside a lab is seen as something 'very dangerous', because only trrrrists and clandestine drug-making chemists are interested in chemistry.