LoL is an excellent introduction to the Lisp way of doing things, and the reader gets a lot of insight into how a Lisp programmer approaches non-trivial problem

LoL is an excellent introduction to the Lisp way of doing things, and the reader gets a lot of insight into how a Lisp programmer approaches non-trivial problems. While there's a good explanation of Lisp basics, the actual game examples use some pretty advanced coding techniques. It would definitely help to be familiar with recursion. ('The Little LISPer'/'The Little Schemer' is a perfect introduction to recursion.) Conrad Barski's style is enjoyably idiosyncratic, but - despite the illustrations and blurb - this is not a book for the beginning programmer!