Yeah, good quality programming books are few and far between. When I first learned C++, I learned it from a c++ book that pretty much taught c (which I hadn't known at the time), and mentioned objects as an afterthought in the last chapter (WTF?). I've got The Stroustrup C++ book, which does have some good information in it, although I've used it more as a reference, and havent looked at it in a while. Also, I generally like the O'Reilly line of books (genenerally as references, though a few are good to read through. Their "By Example" books are useful, too, iirc).