What book did you start to read, didn't like, and quit?

[getting old in mke]

8. Another example of "You never know"

I loved this book and often use it as an example of something freaking brilliant

Same story told five or six times from completely different viewpoints where each retelling advances the narrative some, but makes you realize that what you thought up to then was completely wrong--or completely restrained by the limits of the previous narrators. It's a kind of like the movie "The Red Violin", or more so, "Memento."

My wife begs to differ, though

I remember being entranced back in 5th grade ('66-67) when our teacher read us two books with the same story about events and interactions between two groups of kids, each book told one of the groups perspective. An early introduction to "not everyone sees things as you do, kid." Not that I was ready to hear it...