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Read this as part of a reading group. I would have liked a less introductory level text, as the interesting developments and applications of transcendental phenomenology are only broached and introduced here. That being said, this is perhaps the most accessable of Husserl's texts that I have come upon for someone with no prior experience seeking to get into phenomenology. But if you have some idea about phenomenology and its operations, the I would suggest Husserl's Cartesian Meditations instead, where you get deeper and more substantial analyses.

As an introduction, this short text left me with more questions than answers. This might be something praiseworthy in a philosophical work, in that it incites us to question and thought, but this text doesn't really offer a rich enough explication of means so as to attempt these questions. What gives the givenness of phenomena? What grants phenomenality? Husserl closes with this question of givenness, but offers nothing in terms of guiding threads for questioning.

On to the Ideas I suppose...