Comment by vonwoodson

To be fair, and definitely a part of its appeal, the K&R is only 312 pages long. It covers the language and most of the standard library you’ll need.

As opposed to say, “Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A Beginner's Guide” which is 881 pages and doesn’t even moderately cover the prelude.

Anyway, C is an amazing language and I keep a K&R on my phone as a pdf