No question that K&R's books are good, but even the authors themselves don't claim they are perfect. You would be better off exercising your enthusiasm by learning from a range of authors, getting exposure to varying perspectives and techniques, learning by designing systems, trying to maintain someone else's code, trying to maintain your own code after a break of three years, working with users, and learning that there is more to life than any programming language.
Religious zealotry in any programming language is, frankly, a path to your own oblivion. Religious zealots in C tend to travel in smaller and smaller circles while they pursue terser and more cryptic code constructs to build more fragile code.
