Have you found anything truly "enlightening" in the Django Book (like actually helping you to make a mental model of something or teaching you a better way to do things) that would make it worth checking out after initially "skipping" it?
(I actually went from the tutorial to specific parts of the docs and then to actually digging through the code of some os projects like django-cms, bypassing the Django Book altogether and learning things by reading the docs while actually doing client work ...after "lying" that I actually knew more about Django than I did ...but it all worked out magically alright, ahead of time and in the budget :) ...and this is what really made me feel good about D and made me eager to digg deeper and maybe even contribute to it sometime)
(I actually went from the tutorial to specific parts of the docs and then to actually digging through the code of some os projects like django-cms, bypassing the Django Book altogether and learning things by reading the docs while actually doing client work ...after "lying" that I actually knew more about Django than I did ...but it all worked out magically alright, ahead of time and in the budget :) ...and this is what really made me feel good about D and made me eager to digg deeper and maybe even contribute to it sometime)