The Art of Prolog: Advanced Programming Techniques

I own it and have tried to read it but man I have a really hard time getting past the first chapter. I think it would be better for me to study Prolog first for a while before trying to continue reading this. I've always heard good things about it.

The Art of Prolog is now open access: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-prolog-second-edition You could think of it as "SICP for Prolog".

I have got a copy of "The Art of Prolog" sitting on my desk :) It is pretty good, but I agree with you, it is dated.

"one of the best texts around is "the art of prolog, advanced programming techniques" 2nd edition, by leon sterling and ehud shapiro." Seconded. This is a really good book, though a bit hard to find, the last time I checked.

one of the best texts around is "the art of prolog, advanced programming techniques" 2nd edition, by leon sterling and ehud shapiro. however, by now, it seems a bit dated (e.g. on the constraint logic programming side), so there is another recommendable text "programming prolog for artifical intelligence" by ivan bratko so if you can afford, i would recommend both texts for self-study.