Are there any CL specific books out there that aren't shit? Also, I have SICP downloaded, but I was wondering how much trouble is in store if I were to use CL instead of Scheme.
SICP isn't a CL book, and we've had this thread dozens of times already. Let me look up some of the responses that I've given before, or just the threads:
You should read Practical Common Lisp(PCL), PAIP, On Lisp, ClTl2 and the AMOP when you're ready. Other options are ANSI CL (Graham's) and Keene's OO book. Oh, and have a copy of the Hyperspec locally along with your Emacs+SLIME+CL implementation.
As for doing SICP with CL would be rather easy, but I would still recommend that you get yourself familiar with Scheme, R5RS' spec is only about 50 pages and it's very simple. Common Lisp is a more complex, ``real world'' language (no offense to those using real-world Scheme implementations) and it may be simpler to learn Scheme first as long as you don't retain all the habits when using CL and instead re-learn certain things.
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