Best CS2 Illustrator Book

Been using Appleworks for years on Macs. Time has come to learn Illustrator. I just installed
CS2 on my iMac G5 running OSX 10.4.11. I'm hoping someone can recommend the best book to help me learn Illustrator.
Thanks in advance,
Lenny.

Real World Illustrator book by Mordy Golding is excellent and the way Mordy writes and describes the steps they are easy and intuitive feeling when you try to follow them. Not art all mysterious as many books on learning applications are written.
He also has a site with many interesting techniques and tutorials.
http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/

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Besides the documentation provided by Oracle Server, are there any tutorial books on Oracle I can download from web? Thanks!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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