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I've read all three books listed by the author (K&R, Expert C Programming - Deep C Secrets, and C - A Reference Manual), and although these really help make sense of how C declarations work, the best "trick" that I've come across is the Clockwise/Spiral Rule: http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html

Someone showed me this trick right after college, and it has saved me in numerous scenarios. That and http://cdecl.org/