[jonSson99]

Everyone should start with the perl camel book, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596000271.do

[ChristianGeek]

I hope you're joking.

[vgy7ujm]

Actually those Perl books are cleverly written and fun to read (like much of the official documentation) as opposed to the dry literature of many other programming languages. You may like Perl or not but that is a fact.