Reddit reviews OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Versions 3.0 and 3.1 (7th Edition)
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OpenGL is... a bitch. Documentation is all spread around, there is pseudo-support in Windows, and it is frankly very hard to learn. (Though note it is a well designed API set, IMHO)
I don't have a good recommendation, apart from the Red Book, and patience. A completely different approach that I enjoyed and taught me a ton was to actually write a 3D raster system yourself: i.e. mimic the features of OpenGL, and figure out yourself "how do I draw lines? How do I hide 3D faces? etc." but that's very hard as well.
OpenGL red book, the definitive. (This is assuming you are already very comfortable with C, if not, learn C).
I thought the red book was pretty good, although it uses lots of deprecated code now.
Superbible
This should be really good and the most important of the following books. I ordered it on the 25th and it comes tomorrow. It is more like a tutorial or a guide than just a reference.
Official Reference
This is more a reference as far as I know. This is the official book so I think that you'll find more deep informations in this book. The Superbible could contain some nice tricks as well.
Shading language!
For the shading language. Has a few pictures in it so it could be good for some shaders.
I got these book from a guy on IRC. He said he wrote some driver stuff for Apple and made the planet and asteroids demo on the WWDC. I don't know if I can believe him but I felt like he is a clever OpenGL guy and the whole IRC channel said so as well.
BTW: Don't buy OpenGL 4.x stuff. Apple hasn't even implemented OpenGL 3 completely.
http://www.amazon.com/OpenGL-Programming-Guide-Official-Learning/dp/0321552628
I learned from the infamous "Red Book". But, that was long, long ago in a university far, far away. Even the 7th edition of that book only covers OGL 3.1... These days, any of the tutorials in the sidebar of r/OpenGL would be good.
posting to reddit: 10 seconds.
watching the super bowl: 4 hours.
Finishing off This book: Priceless.