I'm assuming you mean Touretzky's Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation — http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/index.html http://www.cs.cmu

I'm assuming you mean Touretzky's Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation — http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/index.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/index.html — which, yes, is a wonderful book for a complete beginner.