TITLE: Alternative for Kadison and Ringrose's book
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: I have read over the book by R. V. Kadison and J. R. Ringrose: Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras. Vol 1, and have done most of the exercises in it. Now I want to find an alternative book for Vol 2, because I once heard that the content in this book is somewhat out of date and the theories are developed in a rather slow pace. Which book can I choose then?

REPLY [4 votes]: I'm surprised no one mentioned C${}^*$-algebras and their Automorphism Groups by Pedersen. The later chapters get a little specialized, but no one does basic C*-algebra more elegantly than this book.