I found the Perl Cookbook to be a nice "classroom
in a book." I purchased it while taking a course
in Perl and found that it was like having lecture
notes in book form.

I very much like the digestable chunks in which it
is presented. It reminds me of the *excellent*
Unix Power Tools tome. If nothing else, you need
a copy in the bathroom.

The only complaint I had regards the quality of
the book binding. Within 3 days of *very* light
usage, the binding had seperated from the back of
the book; not nearly as nice as the lay-flat
nutshell bindings.