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Paul Gragam's Lisp books were my second lisp books after a class using SICP, so I'm very fond of them, but his view of lisp is seriously idiosyncratic and wouldn't have gotten nearly as much traction as it did if he hadn't lucked out in the first dotcom boom, been a celebrity VC in the second and been one of the few authors of lisp books outside of the AI ghetto while AI was still a ghetto. Pete Seiibel's book and Edi Weitz's are a better looks at Lisp as a practical language without the vcistan bullshit. Paul Graham draws a ton of people to lisp, but no one who writes a lot of lisp writes lisp like Paul Graham. This is a microcosm of Silicon Valley's influence on the craft of programming.