butlersrangers wrote on Oct 6^th, 2011 at 12:42am:

Also, it helps to have Joe Poyer's Book.

There are two positions on that.  Given a choice between that book and "no book," I'd take the latter choice.  Having done my useful poking myself before I bought that book I gave it a once over and decided it wasn't useful.  Having purchased Mallory's and Brophy's books I found that the extra money they command was well worth it. 

Doesn't mean they're perfect either but they're the better idea.