It's been a few years ago now, but I wound up with a copy of The Historian - like so many mentioned before, interesting premise. I can read a LOT of dreck, so I kept trying to figure out why THIS book was so awful to me - i finally decided it was passive - I kept reading thinking something interesting was about to happen, and interesting things did happen - in oh so passive ways that weren't interesting.
I think this was a best seller that year, and every time I think about it, I just cannot imagine that many people liking it.