K&R is still one of the best C books, but I personally would not recommend it to a person just starting out. I suggest you read it and see if you can follow without problems. If you can, then stick with it since the author of K&R is the person who created C, which means it's a reliable resource. Otherwise I'd go for shix's recommendation too.

*The C Programming Language, 2nd edition is commonly referred to as K&R because of the authors Kernighan and Ritchie.