Do you quit a book/movie/tv series halfway if you don't like it?

Or do you soldier through and finish it?

I've read a lot of Neil Gaiman so I thought i would try Neverwhere. I'm having trouble getting into it and I'm not the type to soldier on.

Do you finish everything you start or have you given up? Try to warn people about spoilers if you're going to give any stories up.

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dancingtongue · 80-89, M

I am a little slow to abandon something -- particularly if I am familiar and like the author, producer, director, actor, whatever -- but I only soldier on to the point I am certain it is not headed anywhere I am interested in. I tend to recall [i]Lolita[/i] -- the book by Nabokov, not the movie. I would have abandoned it very early on if it had not been required for a college course, and once I got to the midpoint everything began to come together and it became a real page-turner that I enjoyed the final half of the book.