Ben,
I have found any of the O'Reilly books
(http://perl.oreilly.com/) to be an excellent
resource. I own _Programming Perl_ (a.k.a. "The Camel
Book") and find it's writing style to be very easy to
read (even if I still have to re-read the complicated
bits several times to really understand them)
Comfortably numb? ;-)
This might help (a little more introductory...):
Copyright: 2001
Format: Paper Bound w/CD-ROM, 1057 pp.
ISBN: 0-13-028418-1
In Perl How to Program, the Deitels and their colleagues, Tem R. Nieto
and David C. McPhie, discuss topics you need to build complete,
Web-based a