The worst part is the forward of the second edition says that the publisher hired a C programmer to review the book. That reviewer said "this book should not be published". They published it anyway!
I just downloaded a free sample of the Kindle edition. Here's an excerpt from the preface:
"Prior to publication of the first edition, the manuscript was reviewed by a professional C programmer hired by the publisher. This individual expressed a firm opinion that the book should not be published because “it offers nothing new -- nothing the C programmer cannot obtain from the documentation provided with C compilers by the software companies.”"
The author's claim is that there was a pressing need for a book that just explains C pointers rather than covering the whole language. (It would be interesting to see the rest of what the reviewer wrote.)
There is a line between crackpotness and groundbreakness which sometimes is not visible even for deep experts in the subject (though to be fair most of the time you only need high-school science to debunk most stuff).
The reviewer should have been more explicit "this guy doesn't know what he's talking about" rather than "don't publish this book"
