A review by valealle23
Confessions by Saint Augustine

adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced

2.25

omg thank god i’m done. i would’ve never read this book if it wasn’t for school - i do think augustine makes some good points and i especially liked his passages on the stealing of pears, time, and memory, but maybe that’s just the neurologist in me. everything else just felt dragged on. especially at the end, when he endorses the idea of predestination, i feel like it goes against everything he was trying to say before. if it’s in gods plan, why should you even try to become a better person and get rid of sin? isn’t doing even the bad thing, the right thing in this case? maybe i just love the idea of free will too much to support it. i guess as an agnostic it’s hard for me to connect with the piece too much, but if i read everything as if written to a friend or perhaps to the universe it was a bit more enjoyable. like eh im just glad im done