FreeKnight
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I don't think it's a maturity/age (free time) issue. The books have a real reverse bell curve with some greats at the start, and a real slog through a few of them. If I hadn't "Yarrr'd" them on to Kindle I probably wouldn't bother, I wouldn't re-buy them definitely.I was never able to make it through all 14 (?) books in the series. I think I read maybe 7 or 9 of them? Perhaps I should give them another go now that I'm ahem more mature...
I think they're worth a try though. It's a series that while I really liked parts of it, it's not enough of a literary masterpiece that I'd tell people to grind through it to get to the end if you lost steam while reading.
(Unlike Cosmos or 'The Varieties of Scientific Experience' by Carl Sagan, which everyone should read, even if it's a grind for them)