@fifischwarz
Hah, I once abandoned a book by Stephen King. I just couldn't get through the story which was too repetitive and long before it, supposedly, would BE somewhere, the 'going' was taking way too much time. I think it took place on a train. A tower was involved, I think. I no longer even have that book: if I don't like it I don't keep it.
I do have others of him that I like although I BY FAR prefer other writers such as Peter Hamilton or Greg Bear, and others.