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I voted "Yes", but I admit there are a couple of exceptions.
A few years ago, when I was in my 'read anything by Michael Crichton' phase, I bought a book of his called Five Patients. Turns out it was a non-fiction book where Crichton recalled the events of one day in the hospital back when he was still a practicing physician. I fell asleep about 30 pages in, and never bothered picking it up again. Sometimes I think I should have at least tried; who knows, it might have ended up interesting.
The only other instance of my not finishing a novel was the one and only time I tried Tom Clancy. The book was called Red Rabbit, and I think I got about 150 or so pages through, and just couldn't read any more. Mind-numbingly boring. I never bothered with another Clancy again.
Apart from these two incidences, however, I always finish whatever book I'm reading. I know what kind of books will interest me, and am generally quite picky about which books I buy, so the odds of starting a book that I abandon midway are pretty low.
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