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?

>>1 I'm "maintaining" the fork. It's broken on (at least one) 32-bit Linux also. I should get around to making a new release soon. This time I'm conna compile it statically and hopefully it'll be more reliable on different Linii. (Yes I'm an ENTERPRISE QUALITY JAVA PROGRAMMER and have no idea what I'm doing).