The Second gates of paradise Book

The description of this book was far from being the actual case in my opinion. i thought this book was terribly boring. the cover says it is a novel, but it is structured as if it was the transcript of a really boring lecture. where was the story? when i first started reading it, i thought the lecture was just giving a background to the story and then the next chapter would be more in the form of a story, the story of the marriage. but that was not the case. where was the excitement? did i miss something?
i should note that i could only get through about half of the book before i gave up. i snuck ahead to see if a story structure was developing, but no.