It's a classic and certainly taught me a lot.

It's also one of the more slim programming books on my shelf. I've considered handing to to friends interested in programming. Simply because I hand them a Python book with thousands of pages and I can see them visibly cringe.

I also find the K&R style quite readable. :)

Yes. But I'd also recommend getting Stephen Prata's C Primer Plus. It covers C99, and talks about more complicated topics such as multiple pointer indirection and the preprocessor.

yeah k&r is great i remember going through it my first time and being amazed at how elegant the example code was. Really a great book

I learned from the original edition back in the 80's. When I saw the price at Amazon I was surprised. The list price is given as $67. The Amazon price is $48. The book's a classic but the pricing seems excessive given that the edition is 22 years old.