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People tend to recommend comrades to read Lenin first because he is easier to read. Don't worry, you aren't the first to struggle with Marx's writing style.
One of the main things you'll notice -- especially on technical works like The Capital -- is that Marx writes with "lenses", then he takes a "lens" and expands it even more with other "lenses".
He takes an object and it can be a natural-form or a value-form. Then he expands value-forms into use-values and exchange-values. Then he combines the two into the commodity-form. Then he takes the exchange-value, finds the common thing shared by all commodities -- namely labour-time -- then he discovers the Value. So on, and so forth.
Marx doesn't let any concept stay "static" so to speak. They play with each other, contradict, expand etc.
It's how he applies dialectics. It's accurate, but it's a pain in the ass to read.
It's gets easier though. Especially when you get used to dialectics.