Giving up on a book...

[karalk]

I just finished Brick Lane after almost abandoning it half way through. I forced myself to go on because it was the fifth book in a row that I wasn't able to get into.
I ended up loving the book! Now all I can think of is how many other good books did I miss out on because I didn't persevere?
I'm going to go back to those other four that I gave up on and see what comes of it.

[PeterL]

There's a good chance that you didn't miss much. Books that are so poorly written that readers have trouble reading them usually have other problems.

[ivette]

That happened to me too. I didn't like the beginning of M. Cunningham's The Hours but I still read it. Now it's one of my favorite books.

It happens. :) And if your intuition says you have to keep reading, you do. Sometimes the end is much better than the beginning.

[Bakiryu]

Great Expectations. I just hated the book from beginning to the moment I threw it out the window. (It was required school reading)

[higley]

I admit I've quit in the middle of a few, but I'll guilt myself back into finishing them. :P Sometimes it does get far better, and other times it sort of plateaus. Chuck Palahniuk is an example of the latter.