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Malcolm is spot in in my experience. I tend to notice the patterns and asterisms in my own way, picking them out of good star charts. I suspect everyone has their own unique way of noting "this funny flat trIangle leads to an L shape etc". Uranometria is excellent, but a bit of an investment. I found in the early stages of my star hopping that the charts in "atlas of the southern night sky" were very helpful. Tirion's star atlas 2000 is also an affordable start.
However, if you want some detailed star hopping instructions, it would be a bit hard to go past Malcolm's own observation reports on this site - he always includes very detailed descriptions of how he's hopped to each object.
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