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For prospective buyers who are still on the fence there's a handy 1000-word review comparing and contrasting The Good Parts with the Definitive Guide recommended above:

http://jmesnil.net/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/RzRcw.j...

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I just bought both. The Good Parts to wet my appetite for JavaScript and the Definitive Guide to have a (hopefully) complete language reference.

Just an FYI, in case it wasn't a typo: you mean whet, not wet.

I think you meant to link this: http://jmesnil.net/weblog/2009/09/28/how-books-shape-my-appr... but you linked to the image in the page instead.

A picture is worth...

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