I didn't give K&R that praise because it's a sacred text and I'd feel guilty or embarressed to say otherwise. I said all that because that's how it worked for me: I bought the book, read the whole thing (in far less time and with far less effort than I expected), and at the end of it all I understood C.

I'm exaggerating, but only a little. I did read some more about C afterwards and I wouldn't claim to be a C master. But I never came across any new concepts once the book was complete, or had to fundamentally rework my existing understanding of any concepts. (Not like C++... Oh, there are templates that take templates as template parameters? Or, oh, rvalue references aren't any different to normal references once overload resolution has completed? etc.)

Yes I agree it caters for people that already have a fairly good understanding of coding.