[racket] Common Lisp or Racket?

I'm your typical newbie who is hand-wringing over what direction to go in
the general functional programming world. Lisp, Scheme, or Haskell?

Of late I've been trying to get through the Barski book, "Land of Lisp,"
but I'm really seeing now why Scheme was created: CL seems to have a ton of
gnarl that is part-functional, part-whatever, leaving me wondering and
neurotic. And so I'm trying to understand some esoteric, arcane Lisp
printing/file management weirdness -- which I'm told is not proper
functional style -- after I've just been introduced to yet another CL map
variation, after (funcall thunk). So I guess I'd like your advice vis-a-vis
Racket. Q: Is Racket "cleaner," or is full of pork too? Or have I just got
the wrong book for a beginner?

I understand that Barski is slavishly following the "let's get real stuff
done" philosophy, but I'm not up to speed with functional yet to even know
what's going on. Is your "Realm of Racket" better at this? I feel like I'm
spinning my wheels at this point. . . .

LB
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