Hi everyone I am thinking about learning XNA, I have read some tutorials online but it seems to me that if I want to be serious about this (and I am) then I need to get a good book. I have done some web search and found that the best book is "Microsoft XNA Unleashed: Graphics and Game Programming for Xbox 360 and Windows". There are some other choices but so far this one seems the best there to begin with Did anyone read this book and do you recommend it or something else? Thanks

I haven't read any other books on XNA so I can't comment on those but one thing I do like about this book is it gets into Components & Services (XNA style of OOP) and Finite State Machines, which I find that a lot of the game programming books I've read don't discuss.

My only complaint is that it doesn't talk about model animation (doesn't even mention it), but I'm sure there's tutorials out there that would cover it.

i'm reading Beginning XNA 2.0 Game Programming and at the moment
looks good

Thanks
I actually started looking at online tutorials first and since XNA is kinda new and changes alot, the online option seemed the best. However, I always like to understand exactly what is going on and tutorials usually don't help too much in that. Most tutorials are just code without really good explanation about XNA. I am hoping that a book will have more information so I can really understand what is happening. One of my favourite books was 3D game programming with DirectX 8 for Peter Walsh because of the fact that there was alot of theory in the book rather than just some code and you have to figure it out by yourself.
as for the other book "Beginning XNA 2.0 Game Programming: From Novice to Professional ", I checked this one also and it is got good reviews but it was only reviewed by 3 people so I would assume that this isn't enough to make a good judgement.