hylisper | 9 years ago | on: Practical Common Lisp (2005)
Slightly disagree with this....pg's work is the manual, though peter's examples and explanation of the concepts in lisp are practical to the core. To the point that you re-use your own code developed in the earlier chapters into the later chapters. That was the deal breaker, at least for me. Learning a new programming language is often bland, though engaging the reader practically isn't actually easy as it may seem.