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I tried. Got about a third of the way into the first book, they were out on the sea having nautical adventures, chasing some ship or something, this didn't seem to come to any kind of conclusion, chapter ends, another chapter begins, and the next chapter begins with Aubrey in mid-conversation with characters that haven't been introduced in a setting that hasn't been mentioned. I started picturing Russel Crowe standing in a black void talking to two store mannequins with paper bags over their heads, then a bunch of giggling upside down Russel Crowes started raining down in the background like that one trippy cut scene in Twilight Princess and I was kind of done.
The author has the energy to describe what a t'g'ns'l sheet does in full Ye Olde Bullshite Talke but does not have the energy to establish a setting change between chapters and I refuse to develop the patience for that.
Someone should have warned you to start with book three, but I'm sorry if you can't follow the book that's not likely to be fixed by skipping to when Riker grows his beard.
Funny. You. Should. Say. That.
There's no doubt the series has its accessibility problems. I wish you could feel what I felt when I first read it. Alas.