Personaly i found abcl a bad experience.
Thoughts on ecl & clisp ?
sbcl works nice & fine. But i’t’s the only lisp implementation i know.
There are good books on racket-scheme & chez-cheme.
The only book i know for lisp is, “Common lisp , a gentle introduction to symbolic computing”.
On my Mac with ABCL 1.9.2 I can load it via Quicklisp and get for example this error: