Yup, if you're attractive, you can get away with murder. It would also help if you ever took up card counting or other advantage play.
The intro on rules on this site works pretty good. Go ahead and print the basic strategy chart. You'll probably flub some of the mechanics on handling the cards when you first sit at the table, but everyone does when they start, it's no big deal. You can announce that you're a newbie and that will take heat off.
Also, pix plz.
I'm trying to think of the best book to read for a non-advantage-playing person... I have a hunch it's Fred Renzey's Blackjack Bluebook II, although I haven't even read it myself.