The best book for beginners

Hi all... actually this is my first contribution... if I can say it's a contribution anyway!!.. 

The thing is.. many ask about how to get to learn Java... what books to read..etc., but soon they give up because they get bored of the technical content and the boring way the authors present their material..

Actually, I'm not a novice.. but I was reading that book that helps passing a Sun's certification exam.. and that was real fun.. the authors: KATHY SIERRA & BERT BATES  really make learning new topics just some kind of interesting fun.. The funny thing is that a friend of mine passed me a book called "Head First Design Patterns".. I started to read the book and I found it really interesting... the reason I recently discovered is: because it was written just by the very same authors of the certification book I was reading in parallel with it.. again KATHY SIERRA & BERT BATES..

After some research I found that they wrote a series called "HEAD FIRST.." including the best sellers "HF Design patterns", "HF EJB" and the most important "Head First Java".. just read the review of the book from Sun's website itself http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/javaprogramming/headfirstjava2/

A good thing to mention is that the reviews say that even those with no programming background can find the book useful.. 

That says.. if you look for a book to really understand, you have to try a Head First book..