The Confessions of Saint Augustine

I tried, I really did. We're going to be discussing excerpts of this at my church book club, and I already had it on my TBR, so I figured why not try to do the whole thing. I got through page 57 (somewhere in the middle of Book 4). There were lines throughout that were lovely, expressing Augustine's love for God and His goodness. But the language was so difficult to read as a modern reader, that even with close attention I don't know that I was really getting a lot out of it.

I could keep trying, I suppose, but I went to the Sparknotes website to look up summaries for the next few Books (chapters), and after clicking through a couple of them, I couldn't muster up any desire to keep reading summaries, let alone the rest of this tome. I think that's a good indication I should set this aside.