As stated in an earlier post as I began Charles Petzold's Programming Microsoft Windows with C#, I am often disenchanted with a book after a couple of hundred pages. The hammer fell on this book around page 180 when I started dozing off in the “Lines, Curves, and Area Fills” chapter. And then there was the “Images and Bitmaps“ chapter, “Brushes and Pens“, “Font Fun“, “Beziers and Other Splines“, etcetera kill me now. There was good coverage on menus, dialogs, buttons, and so on, but the topics seemed isolated from all others. Very textbook. Very dry. So if you want to dig into, say, BUTTONS, you'll enjoy this book. If you want to move through a series of topics and pick up insights and a bit of blue collar code to use in your applications, then this book ain't it.
I have two other books on the shelf covering Windows programming with which I've not yet hit the disenchanted zone: Chris Sell's Windows Forms Programming in C# and Erik Brown's Windows Forms Programming in C#. These both are more real-world approaches, with more pictures and a lighter style of writing.
If you're interesting in buying the Windows programming book, here's the link to the Amazon used sellers page for the book where I listed it at $25.