Title: Limping over the Shark
Product review: We have just one rule in our book club: If you want to drink wine with the group, you've got to finish the book. It's powerful incentive, obviously.Make no mistake: The Rule of Four is no DaVinci Code. The only real intrigue presents itself in the epilogue. It's a little bit DaVinci-esque, but it's far too little and far too late; by that time, it just seems like a preposterous bit of reverse shark-jumping. The characters are so poorly drawn that it's possible to distinguish one from another only by physical descriptions; a real author would not have felt required to keep reminding us how big and black Charlie is and how small and slight Paul is. And throughout I was haunted by the burning question: Does Princeton have some special legal dispensation that allows for such free-flowing liquor at undergrad functions?The book club meeting starts in two hours, and I am ready for that glass of wine. I've really earned it this time.
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