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Re:Ask HN: any suggestions for a Lisp project to start with? by SkyMarshal on Friday November 05, 2010 @11:20PM (#1875815)
Both these books walk you through creating various interesting applications in Lisp, from servers and databases to games:

http://gigamonkeys.com/book/

http://landoflisp.com/

Re:Ask HN: any suggestions for a Lisp project to start with? by gsivil on Friday November 05, 2010 @11:27PM (#1875834)
Thanks. I've got already the ANSI common LISP to have as first reference and after seeing some posts here I am considering getting the landoflisp some time soon.
Re:Ask HN: any suggestions for a Lisp project to start with? by mahmud on Friday November 05, 2010 @11:42PM (#1875878)
ANSI Common Lisp is good. I did _all_ the exercises.

You might consider playing with GUI stuff with LTK:

http://www.peter-herth.de/ltk/