Comment by EdwardCoffin

This book was an important part in my learning of Lisp, along with Common Lisp the Language 2ed. It did leave me with a few biases that took a while to overcome though, like biases against CLOS and verbose names.

I consider this book to be almost like a forerunner of the style of book that JavaScript: the Good Bits is, in that it is advocating one's use of a language to a particular subset rather being an impartial description of the whole language.