Do not waste your time with The Django Book. The Django docs are epic, and what you don't understand you can usually get assisted with on StackOverflow or in #d

Do not waste your time with The Django Book. The Django docs are epic, and what you don't understand you can usually get assisted with on StackOverflow or in #django on freenode. Also, find a website you use a lot and create a clone of it in Django. You'll find that to be more educational than any generic tutorial.