The hardest book I ever read

     Discounting Twilight, I can honestly say that I feel most of the books I've read have had at least some value. It should be noted that I include entertainment as value. I know what most of you are thinking, but no I'm not going to say Silas Marner, because in my opinion that wasn't hard; it was just awful. I am not going to say the dictionary, which I read in elementary school when I had even fewer friends, because the pages consisted only of a cacophony of definitions and lacked symbolism, motifs, themes, and every other part of literature.
     So, now that I've gone through things that aren't the hardest book I've ever read and spent a large amount of time forcing a vocabulary word to fit somewhere in the paragraph, I'd have to say the hardest book I have ever read was Egg Monsters from Mars, part of the Goosebumps series. It tells the story of a kid interacting with egg monsters from Mars. This, obviously, was not the hard part of the book.
     The easiness with which I read the book, which I was in either second or third grade while reading, abated gradually as it went on. In the book's climax, (if a post is created on a blog no one will ever read, is a spoiler alert still needed? Either way SPOILER ALERT) a scientist attempts to contain the egg monsters from Mars and the child who interacted with them. The reaction of the egg monsters to this action was to form a blanket when the child got cold, sacrificing themselves in the process. Also the narrator laid an egg. For reasons based around all science that has ever been done, this confused me to no end. The librarian had a dearth of time to read it, let alone explain it to me, so I went without any sort of explanation until I remembered the book in middle school, when I finally Googled it while avoiding actual work. It makes sense now of course, but I have not been confused by a book that badly ever since. Yes, I'm counting Heart of Darkness when I say this; however, it was close.