I was having struggles reading theory. It takes me forever to get through a couple pages of State and Revolution. Back when I read it, it took me almost an hour to get through like ten pages of Lenin's Imperialism and actually internalize what he was saying instead of zoning out midway through. I'm starting to think it may be because Lenin and Marx write like you're intimately familiar with everything going on, but I've got a very big gap in my history education and I find that it makes it harder to read their works. Add to that the fact that their English is a little antiquated and I just have difficulties putting it together. I tried to read another book—Capitalizing on Crisis—that was recommended to me on an anticapitalist reading list, and I had some serious difficulty there too. Much moreso than S&R. I also had problems with Origin of the Family and it feels like just reading a preface is an automatic non-starter for reading for me. Blackshirts and Reds was an easy read though.

Randomly, I was at Barnes and Noble the other day and decided to pick Fujimoto's Fire Punch and read it. Somehow I got through the whole thing in 12 hours, with a 3 hour break in the middle to take an exam and drive somewhere. Probably the most thematically dense manga I've ever read. Would love to do a literary analysis on it but that'd be hella time consuming and I wouldn't even know where to start.

Anyways, I digress, point is I wanted to ask if anyone else here struggled with reading like this? Maybe it's the ebooks, I know I've never liked ebooks, but I read half the manga online. Then again I guess a picturebook is easier lol.