You have already found two of the three best Perl books around.

Effective Perl Programming (Addison-Wesley) is absolutely fantastic. It focuses on idiomatic Perl, which provides immediate depth and insight into the workings of this wonderful language. I often find myself flipping through the one-liners toward the back of the book, just to marvel at their beauty and elegance. :-)

Advanced Perl Programming (O'Reilly) gives you a good overview of the more powerful aspects of Perl. Data structures, Modules, Networking, OO, GUI development with Tk...it's all in there.

The third book I always recommend is Object Oriented Perl. (Manning) It covers OO Perl in more detail than you may ever truly need. You will emerge from this book with a hugely expanded understanding of how Perl works on the inside.

As other posters have pointed out, you simply cannot become merlyn overnight, but with a good set of tools, and a cool place to hang out like Perl Monks, we'll all make it (someday).

Russ