It took forever to finish this, on account of my brain not braining for nearly a year. I had bailed on it, but I got to the last third finally.
For me, this is a pick, BUT YMMV.
This is an academic book. It's great but so *dry*, and if you have not read Dante's Divine Comedy, this book will make no sense to you, because it's a collection of reflections on its three books.