I have not had that experience myself as I am pretty happy with the lisp books I have read. Maybe it's because I took lisp courses in undergrad, and then worke

I have not had that experience myself as I am pretty happy with the lisp books I have read. Maybe it's because I took lisp courses in undergrad, and then worked on projects where my figuring things out was driven by specific projects. I would recommend possibly a video course, and following like a real course, doing the work, and then coming up with a project where you apply it. Here is a free video course from MIT following the classic textbook, which is also available for free online http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-le...