Can you leave a book/game or series unfinished?

[RedDeadFred]

Not usually but it has happened on occasion (although very rarely with books).

The Wheel of Time -I think I read about the first 5 books but I just got increasingly more bored. I don't even think I finished the 5th book. I just stopped one day and never picked it up again.

There's a book by Dean Koontz that I can't remember the name of. I was reading it last year and it was genuinely creepy but then I made it to around the half way point and it turned out that this mysterious man who was haunting this other person was an angel. At this point I had already been annoyed by how Koontz often dumps copious amounts of religion into his books just for the fuck of it so I stopped reading, said out loud: "fuck you Dean Koontz", and then never picked up the book again. I also swore off his books after that. Seriously, one of his books builds up this awesome world ending alien invasion but then it turns out that the aliens are just angels and they're only killing the bad people. The main character of course is a pretty swell guy so he lives happily ever after with about 20,000 other adults and a lot of children. The fucking end.

...Ehem.... sorry about the rant.

There are significantly more video game series that I never finished so I won't list them all.

 

[Fijiman]

I have no problem dropping a game or book series If I'm not enjoying it.

 

[Nazulu]

I used to but I don't let myself do that anymore, unless it's just shit. It would be because I would get bored of it or something else became more appealing.

I remember ditching a book called Carnivore which seem to be appealing to some more than others because of the amount of swearing in it. Apparently that makes it more mature

I just stopped in the middle of MP Echoes but I can't recall exactly why, I only remember I became sick of traveling through light and dark and staying near lights to survive. I'll be going back to finish it when I've completed Metroid Prime again. I also dropped some Wii games since the Wiimote kept fucking with me and not working when I needed it most.

And there are many TV shows I stopped watching because they turned into something bland or terrible by following trends.

 

[Callate]

George RR Martin still has my attention. Robert Jordan, on the other hand, managed to alienate me from Wheel of Time long before he passed away. Seriously, book ten was about as close as you can come to insulting your readers without actually coding the words "you people will buy anything, won't you" into every page.

Still haven't played Mass Effect 3, but that's EA's fault. Even with all the derision heaped on the ending, I'd still give it a go for the many good parts others have described; I just can't vote for EA to keep doing what it's been doing with my wallet. Maybe some day it will come to GOG.

GTA IV- there could hardly be a worse game for getting part-way through and restarting. Every time some other game lures me away, it's harder to come back. Just too damn much busy-work to get through the sad-sack "crapsack world" storyline, too many gestures in the direction of open world autonomy to keep getting sucked back into characters making unavoidable bad decisions one after another.