Reddit reviews Colloquial Persian (Colloquial Series)

Here are the only three books I'd recommend to learn to speak the language:

• Modern Persian: Spoken and Written, Volume 1
  Despite the picture of a CD-ROM, it's a real book and real big. There is a volume two to it as well. Also, I would imagine it would be tough to learn on your own with this book, but if you could find a tutor or class to go through this with, it may work well. May (or may not) come with CDs.
  
• Colloquial Persian It's a decent book and could be used for self-study.
  
• Persian Language Teaching, AZFA Bar-none, one of the best textbook series out there. May (or may not) come with CDs.
  
  On the question of learning both spoken and book Persian - it's possible, but you'll really confuse yourself. Learn one first and then the other. The vast majority of people learn book Persian first and then try to learn the spoken form second. I think this is backwards and would recommend learning the spoken language first.
  
  On the question of newscasters - yeah, things can be very different. Let me give you an example that happens - my wife is a native Farsi speaker. She struggles significantly with understanding the Dari (Afghan) and Tajiki (Tajikistan) colloquial accents. But she can listen to newscasts from Afghanistan and Tajikistan with almost no problems, because they are all in book Persian, which is highly consistent across Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. So this is to say that the colloquial manner of speaking can be different from the standard book Persian. They each have their purposes - but if your purpose is to communicate verbally with people, learn the spoken language. I wish I had a good comparable story with spoken and written English, but I don't really.

Thank you for the recommendation! Is it this: http://www.amazon.com/Colloquial-Persian-Abdorreza-Rafiee/dp/0415157498/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454111971&sr=8-1&keywords=colloquial+persian

Or this:
http://www.amazon.com/Colloquial-Persian-Abdi-Rafiee/dp/0415560454/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1454111971&sr=8-2&keywords=colloquial+persian