Interesting historically, bad theology/philosophy
As a non-believer, some of the more entertaining bits were Augustine pining that he wishes he'd been made a eunuch as a boy, and describing at length the sensual dreams that aroused and tormented after he gave up his lecherous ways and escaped the lesser torment of marriage. Interesting historically as a document of how Platonism was explicitly wedded with Christianity, but some of the theology is a bit strained, e.g., his exposition of Genesis chapter one in which he attempts to explain how God created everything outside of time and without any effort, and yet this took six days and he rested on the seventh. His attempts to solve the problem of evil also do more to confuse the issue than to clarify it, but that is to be expected. But it is definitely far better in terms of both literary style and quality of thought than the efforts of today's religious apologists (e.g., C.S. Lewis), and it is worth reading for anyone interested in intellectual or religious history. Simon Vance's narration of this edition is fine, but not great.

