[nalbyuites]

I recently came to appreciate this as a novice programmer learning Lisp. After working through the initial chapters of 'Practical Common Lisp' and 'Land of Lisp', I settled on DS Touretzky's 'Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation'.

The pace is very comforting for a beginner and the reiterations are meticulous in detail and yet concise. For any beginner, the joy and confidence from being able to grok simple concepts and finishing all exercises provides the impetus to move on to tomes like SICP, 'On Lisp' and 'Let Over Lambda'. I would highly recommend technical authors to study the prose and content layout in this book.