Ah but the beauty is that you can read for pleasure knowing that you won't have an exam at the end and trying to work out what your professor thinks is important.

If you want to enjoy linear algebra without the pressure of doing any, I can heartily recommend MIT's open coursewear videos featruring Gilbert Strang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c&list=PLE7DDD91010...

In fact all the MIT stuff I have tried is fun to watch