Wanted: advice on a good C textbook

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <5005 at ficc.uu.net> walker at ficc.uu.net (Walker Mangum) writes:
>I *highly* recommend _The C Puzzle Book_.

I have a problem with that book:  It relies on nonstandard C
implementation features for many of its examples, and the
emphasis on puzzling C constructs does not encourage use of
clean coding style.