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It happens to me too. I usually tough it out, hoping for enlightenment. Sometimes when I'm grinding through something that I don't 'get' I am aided by reading what others say about it (literary criticism or even just synopsis). Most of the time I have only the satisfaction of completing what I started at the end.
I was re-reading something just days ago that I didn't get in my youth. I am embarassed to tell you it was Deus Irae, by P.K. Dick and R. Zelazny, and it still doesn't "work" for me. Those are two of my all-time-favorite authors yet together they wrote what I only value as a disturbing tale and an old-fashioned poke at religion. I understand some of the symbolic meaning but I STILL don't see why they were driven to write this one. I'm probably just missing a sense of awe at their cleverness or I just don't get the joke.
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