A glowing review of "Clojure For the Brave and True" book. Discusses Clojure's Lisp-inspired syntax being easier than expected, immutable data structures for safer applications, lazy evaluation for performance, pragmatic approach over pureness, compares to Haskell, and praises the book's mix of humor with solid step-by-step learning through functional programming concepts.

Preparing for a 22-hour flight to New Zealand and Australia by loading up on ebooks from ThriftEBooks. Focusing on Manning Publications' "Groovy in Action" and "Grails in Action" to gain expertise for demonstrating rapid web application development with Grails at work.