The book i've enjoyed more when i was starting was Perl Cookbook. Ok is very old but the recipe approach is the best imho if you have few hours weekly. The code of the book is anyway valid Perl and the tecniques inside are still used nowadays as the idioms.
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There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.