After reading a few pages from SAMS Teach yourself perl in 21 days, programming perl "camel book", and learning perl "llama book", i found the SAMS book to be the most helpful. The wording was more so for beginners to understand and the examples were simple to understand. The only thing I am not excited about is the syntax used in this book. Some of the example codes are a bit bulky and teach bad syntax styles, but that is just what i believe from reading it. So, I suggest in getting this book and using on O'reilly book as reference.
"Es gibt mehr zu Leben als Bücher, kennen Sie.
Aber nicht viel mehr " -(Der Smiths)