Lispbox-like emacs settings

I've just bought the dead-tree version of Practical Common Lisp and some time to go through it. To get started quickly, the author used to provide a "Lisp in a box" that isn't maintained any longer. There's a fork but it's broken on Linux x64 (it could probably be fixed but it's no quickstart).

I got SBCL, Emacs and Slime, what else a beginner reading Seibel's tutorial needs? From what I've read here Quicklisp and Paredit are recommended too? I'd like to keep things simple until I'm confortable with Lisp and Emacs. What's the easiest way?

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Paredit and maybe Redshank are fine too. Besides SBCL, you might also set up ClozureCL, CLISP, ECL if you want to see how implementations differ - it's not hard to set up SLIME to work with them all. Obviously you should also install ASDF if you want to use any libraries or write your own.