[akater]

Unless you go with commercial Lisps, you likely won't get far without Emacs.

Thus, one option to consider (esp. if you're not fond of learning by the book) is to just start learning Emacs since you will need it anyway, use Emacs Lisp to configure it and learn the basics hands-on way. That will likely feel “different” enough already to change the way you think about programming, if that's one of the goals.

No need for books, no need to setup anything, you're simply dropped into a huge introspection-enabled sandbox that is about to become your main tool.