Thankfully Newtek have addressed the lack of tutorials via their site. It was pretty dire a year ago. Book wise, Inside Lightwave 7 helped me tremendously, and is actually an easy read - allot of what the manual should have been. There's a serious lack of Lightwave books available, in my opinion which I'd like to see change. Videos/DVD's I'm skeptical about, but the DVD's mentioned in here I've had my eye on for a while. Web tutorials can be useful too, especially the sites listed in this topic, not to mention this site. I'd really recommend one of the Inside Lightwave books (
http://www.insidelightwave.com) though... and it's about time Dan Ablan got those freebie tutorials up though.