Books I didn't finish reading

In recent years I've been reading like a good Protestant, finishing every book I started no matter how disagreeable. But life is short and there are so many books waiting to be read that now I'm ready to abandon the ones that really put me off, like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections -- I got as far as the talking turd. And other books which, though vaguely interesting and on important topics, are just dull, like Francisco Martín Moreno's novelized history of oil exploitation in Mexico, México negro.