PG is The guide to Lisp as far as I'm concerned, the first one at least. I'm a fairly competent Lisper these days, but man I struggled so hard in the beginning

PG is The guide to Lisp as far as I'm concerned, the first one at least. I'm a fairly competent Lisper these days, but man I struggled so hard in the beginning and would probably have given up if it wasn't for PG's essays. He also wrote a pretty good book on more advanced topics that's free to download: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html