Partial Apology for Declaring Books Unreadable When They Have Excessive Manifestations of Multiple Personality

On rare occasions in the past six years, I have declined to continue reading books that I found unclear and unreadable. But how could I have been right to put these books down, since I wouldn’t have picked them up in the first place if they had not been either classics or by proven writers?

I may find books unreadable due to the following:

1. unexplained switching among multiple narrators

2. unexplained switching back and forth in time

3. unexplained switching among casts of characters

4. unexplained switching from one story to another

5. puzzling format

Since I read things here in order to find manifestations of multiple personality, it is ironic that I find works unreadable when they have excessive manifestations of multiple personality, such as the five kinds listed above.

Of course, what is “excessive” for me may be delightful to others, who include many readers, reviewers, and literary prize judges.