What's With James Madison?

I'm bogged down in a 160 biography that I should have been done with days ago. It's awful. It's easy to blame the author, and I'd also wondered if the book's brevity isn't part of the problem -- maybe they had to cut out all the interesting stuff to get to what's important -- but the fact that Drew struggled through a longer bio of Madison by another author and seemed to hate it makes me wonder if the creepy little braniac wasn't just boring.