"Your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" "Yet, what is an ocean but a multitude of drops?" - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell. At first I didn't know it was a book. I saw the trailer for the movie first, and decided against watching it because it seemed too confusing, unfocused. I had no idea what was going on when I first saw the trailer. So I paid little to no attention to it. I asked my friend about it, who simply said that he found it boring and confusing. I didn't need convincing after that, so I passed.