[BeetleB]

Were you merely reading, or were you doing the exercises as well?

SICP was my first introduction to Scheme/Lisp - and not at a young age. Once I started doing the problems, reading it became trivial.

[alkonaut]

I was trying to read it, without being at all comfortable with the language. But I have also tried and failed multiple times to accept it by e.g. doing Clojure before that. So I wasn't entirely new to the syntax when I tried to read the book.