How do you read very boring novels that have been greatly recommended?

I picked Kazuo’s Ishiguro’s “The Remains of the Day”. I had heard and read much praise on the novel, specifically on its prose and the subtle viciousness that Ishiguro’s words painted. I started reading it and got very bored. It wasn’t that the language wasn’t beautiful but just that the story got no where. I just wonder, how do you read or drive through novels that leave you extremely bored?