How hard was Capital to read? I've always assumed that Piketty would be relatively easy, once one got going. Not read it myself but I do read economics and enjoy it (pervert) so maybe I will.
Vol 1 is easy if you read it as something explaining the underlying mechanisms of being on the dole.
Vols 2-3 are much more hardcore.
honestly though, most marxists haven't even read vol 1 and that's a walk in the park if you read it from the perspective of the reserve army of labour (unemployment) so dive straight in.
Oh and read it from the perspective of peasants being thrown off the land and reduced to a class of criminal vagabonds during the enclosures. then it all makes much more sense.