There have been topics here about good books we've read, but did you ever read a book (not a school assignment) that you didn’t like? I just finished a book that I would not recommend – “The Rule of Four”, by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. I won’t go into a detailed review, but suffice it to say that it was advertised on its cover as a “New York Times Bestseller” and the back cover made reference to “not since the Da Vinci Code…..” and some other mystery book.

After the first 50 pages I was ready to call it quits, but I persisted; stubbornly saying to myself that I invested time and I was going to see it through. I finally finished it. It was pretentious, filled with unnecessary similes and metaphors and the storyline kept bogging down. I found myself saying, “yeah, so what.” The story was about four brainy Princeton guys, two of who were tying to unravel a mystery from a book written during the Renaissance.

I only read during my commute on the bus to NY. 15 minutes each way. But I look forward to passing the time that way. Now, I’m reading “Caddy For Life: the Bruce Edwards Story”. He was Tom Watson’s caddy for many years. Bruce died in April, 2004, 49 years old, from Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

So what crappy book have you read?