From my own casual investigations, Wheelock is considered a perfectly good textbook (particularly for people with lots of experience learning languages, e.g. grad students in the humanities), but also a bit "traditional," focusing more on learning grammatical rules and less on developing an intuition for the language. Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata is at the other, "immersion"-oriented end of the spectrum.

My latin teacher used both wheelock and lingua latina. They complement each other really well.

It is common, but that does not mean it's good, especially with all the research that's been done in learning over the past few decades. As someone remarked, Wheelock:

> It teaches about Latin, teaching you the Latin language is not the goal of this book […]

* https://old.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/8rp222/

Wheelock can be used as a technical reference if you want to know the exact structure. But it's like trying to read the C++ ISO spec if you want to program.

The consensus seems to be either Ørberg and/or Cambridge if you want dead-tree materials.

Why call it dead tree which sounds negative and not carbon sink instead...