I can double on that. Around the second chapter I was so amazed by the book that instead of reading it further I translated it into Russian, got the Professor'

I can double on that. Around the second chapter I was so amazed by the book that instead of reading it further I translated it into Russian, got the Professor's blessings, and to this day it warms my heart every time I see a new star on the repo. It's definitely a good introductory piece on Lisp history and its central ideas as well as on language runtimes and implementations.