well, I have a good eye for stuff I shouldn't even start...like Ayn Rand, but I DID try "Giles Goat-Boy" by John Barth...twice....I suppose that if I was snowed in, had that ONE book and no interruptions, I might have been able to focus long enough to finish it, but lacking those conditions, it simply clouded my mind with fuzzy plot nuances until I couldn't remember what the point was. I didn't throw it: I just laid it quietly down and let it gather as much dust on the outside as I found on the inside.