>>7
Not sure if you're allowed to talk any more...
To OP, books are fine, they are a great COMPLIMENT to a well-defined structured course, and in my experience, I have found only pure maths books like the Springer Undergrad Texts to actually approach aspects of mathematics from a completely fundamental basis. I am a natural sciences student who loves mathematics (given the chance I would transfer into pure maths, I'll probably do it later on in life) and I read a number of pure maths books because the applied maths books that swarm bookshelves like pubic lice in a dorm (my example would be any book by that cunt Anton) are a very bad way of learning maths for the maths-oriented. Get a book on finite mathematics, an introductory book on analysis and one on linear algebra, then read them VERY slowly, understand and grasp every concept before you move on. This is the crippling factor that people who don't get lectures and tutorials on pure maths have to suffer.
Also, look on some university maths websites for lecture notes (some lecturers post theirs up) and look around the first year (freshman) section and you should find some nice jewels, especially the ones who are pretntious and write mini-books, since they are completely well-structured and not schizophrenic like normal books from amazon, etc. (the reason for this is that the books are spread very thin to try and accomodate many different maths courses of varying difficulty, thus making it difficult to read without guidance).
TL;DR - Read Springer Undergraduate Maths textbook Series and get a friend/tutor to help you. Also, read university Freshman lecture notes.