Couldn't agree more with you. When I first got in to trying to learn Perl, this was one of the first books I picked up. Today it's the most dogeared and worn Perl reference I own.

The relative ease with which you can usually find a quick answer makes this one a winner. I did pick up it's smaller cousin though and was not as happy with it. The one that weighs in around 1000+ pages is definitely the better of the two.