[jerf]

LYAH is really good for getting you over the first big humps of learning Haskell, if you've never learned a language like Haskell before. I still really like it's explanation of monadic values. It builds up to them in a nice way. If you can pull open a GHCi session while reading that portion of the book and play around on the interpreter while reading it, you'll learn some good stuff. (As with many programming books, it may not seem logical, but I recommend typing out all the examples you find yourself. It works.)

It does not itself teach you much practical stuff. But if you learn what is in LYAH, you'll be pretty close to what you need to pick up most of the practical libraries in Haskell and understand the API level enough to use it, because once you get over that particular difference of Haskell's libraries, you can start working with them like you would any other language's libraries, and incrementally fold in the "Haskell special sauce" as you go, while you are at least learning things instead of stuck adding numbers together and filtering lists and all of the other handful of things you can do without files, network, or anything else you need an IO-based library for.