Locke is very dry. In one of my Philosophy classes in college we had to part of the Two Treaties, something I really wanted to read at that time (I was majoring in Political Science), and really wanted to like Locke. I wanted to rip my eyes out, Besides if you want to get in to Social Contract Theory of Governance you should start off with either Plato's Apology of Socrates or Hobbes' The Leviathan both of which are considered the start of the idea of the Social Contract, Plato's kind of indirectly, Hobbes' directly.