I agree, the book is so good. I got some books off of the alias website before they merged and those books helped me out a lot. I thought i knew the whole programs lmao even tho i prob touched 1% of it lol it give you a good base to start from and then once you have that base, you can get into modeling. What I like about the books is they arent trying to keep it under 20 mins lol so they really explain what you are doing and why. But like Neo said, anything you do, it takes time and practice, the more you use it the faster you get and better. soon you will use all the hotbox commands instead of using the menus