[gnu]

Sure, but that is meant as a personal thing and not meant as a general statement. Everyone should evaluate whether the book (any book) works for their needs.

The main reason is that, it was a very dry read with various rules and syntax etc and I got bored looking at it quickly. It almost felt like I am reading an abridged version of the standard itself. The exercises didn't appeal to me much.

I didn't mean to dis the efforts of the author at all. There is no other book that covers the modern parts of the standard well. I am not aware of any other C book that covers the wide chars than this book.

[rtkaratekid]

I had the same experience with this book. I set out as an intermediate C programmer and ended up just bored to tears with things I felt were obvious and frustrated that questions about “real” C code were not being answered. Also the exercises were... very involved for just trying to learn potentially simple points. I ended up giving up on the book for now, maybe I’ll pick it back up later or I’ll peruse your list.