Suggestions for Analytic Number Theory textbooks

[pcm]

Something other than Apostol's book which I find lacking in motivation. Not too advanced, since it is my first encounter with ANT.

 

[mathwonk]

I am not an expert but here are some suggestions from math stack exchange:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/153022/a-good-reference-to-begin-analytic-number-theory

 

[MidgetDwarf]

Something other than Apostol's book which I find lacking in motivation. Not too advanced, since it is my first encounter with ANT.

I found this book excellent to get the basics down.

Do you just find it as a boring read, or terse?

 

[pcm]

I found this book excellent to get the basics down.

Do you just find it as a boring read, or terse?

Terse. I checked other books and I didn't find one that was better. I am using this book for now and supplementing it with Kedlaya's notes, and for Dirichlet's theorem I found a nice exposition by Knapp.