Need to get some books...Please Help

[QuietMike]

I want to get some computer books to teach myself some advanced skills...Anyone know where there is a resource that rates computer books on how good they really are? I am going to buy a few in a couple of days and I want to make sure I get the best book in each categorie.<br /><br />The categories Iam looking for include:<br />Flash 5<br />HTML

[donger]

<a href="http://www.oreilly.com/" target="_blank">http://www.oreilly.com/</a><br />not reviews, but awesome advanced technical books

[Paparazzi]

flash 5 for dummies

[The Chosen]

you don't need a book to learn HTML <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

[Terrance11]

visual quickstart guides are the best, I've taught myself everthing from html, frontpage, photoshop, flash, and some of dreamweaver going through those books. A must have! <img border="0" alt="[Bounce]" title="" src="graemlins/bounce.gif" />

[Terrance11]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Terrance11:<br /><strong>visual quickstart guides are the best, I've taught myself everthing from html, frontpage, photoshop, flash, and some of dreamweaver going through those books. A must have! <img border="0" alt="[Bounce]" title="" src="graemlins/bounce.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Well actually they're beginner to intermediate books, not for advanced learning. <br /><br />Why the hell do you need to learn html??? All you really need is a reference guide to make sure everything is correct...

[DTK]

QuietMike - amazon, of course, has user ratings of books. I've always found the books from Wrox to be quite good.

[QuietMike]

I know most html. I can code a page by hand, but I am looking for the best books out there on these topics because I want to learn detail I can to get maximum peformance...