These two tomes take up a total of 500mm and 1068 pages. This is a new one to me. It may even update a source control system. I cannot see how an IDE can do this. Likewise scanf is dismissed as 'just too strange'.
Pointers are 'the ugliest aspect of C'.
Unix's grep is 'hellish'. Only strcpy or strncpy are available to copy strings. It goes on and on, accompanied by the most banal wise cracks. However, he suggests that modern compilers leave lint redundant. Bounds checking gets a mention, but only just.