Practical Common Lisp chapters available

Since some of the folks on this list have expressed an interest, I
figured I'd post this here:

I have the first three chapters of the Common Lisp book I'm writing
for Apress in a form that they are ready for some review. These are
really introductory chapters so the main question is, do you think
they will draw in non Lispers? Another questions is: are there things
I didn't mention that I really need to cover in these early chapters?

The chapters are the ones at:

  <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/>

marked with "Ready for review, 2003-10-02", specifically: 

  <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/introduction-a-once-and-future-history-of-lisp.html>
  <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/lather-rinse-repeat-a-tour-of-the-repl.html>
  <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/mini-practical-a-simple-database.html>

There are other chapters there on the web in various stages of
development--feel free to read anything you want but be aware that
things I haven't marked as being ready for review might change
radically at any point. Also there are no guarantees that I've even
run a spell checker over some of those chapters, let alone gone over
them with a red pen looking for typos. I happen to be horrendous at
it's/its (not because I don't know which is correct but because I just
don't type the right one--it's some problem in my brain and its
connection to my fingers) so you don't really need to point out every
place I got that wrong.

As always, comments, questions, and flames are all welcome. Feel free
to use the address [email protected] if you want to help me keep my
mail sorted out.

-Peter

-- 
Peter Seibel                                      [email protected]

         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp