When I first became born again, I struggled with the bible too. Now I love it...its like spiritual food. Everytime I find an epiphany in it, it's like an outpouring of God's blessing to my soul.

I remember the Day I first read Psalm 22 (the majority of the psalms were mostly written by King david around 1000 B.C.) and as I read it I realized this was a prophecy of Christ's crucifixion that would happen over a 1000 years later...in fact christ himself quoted from it on the cross. I felt like I had discovered a nugget of Gold in the midst of a riverbed. Just the revelation that this prophecy existed for so many centuries before christ...before the Romans even brought in the practice of Crucifixion...stuff like that still amazes me even to this day. now I can't wait to find the next awesome new discovery day by day. I love that about the bible.

There's two ways I approached the bible when I first started reading it. One was to pursue it as a discipline. A one year bible reading plan is good for that...you can find many online. The idea being to get the information in...and the revelation may come later...and most of the time it comes exactly when you need it.

The second way was to search it to study a certain biblical question or principle. Say for example you wanted to see what God has to say about money, or the sabbath, or helping others...you can search for the scriptures that deal with those subjects, or find bible studies on them. This allows for much more immediate revelations usually...or spend time with the holy spirit and let him teach you and show you things as you work your way through the scriptures.

The bible:
-Genesis through Job will read more like a story and history (although Leviticus, Deuteronomy and numbers will be a little more dry at first...lots of Laws listed there).

-Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon are great for prayers, wisdom, and more philisophical teachings.

-The rest of the Old Testament are made up of Prophets, and these books are probably the most difficult for a new christian to tackle...but are filled with rich treasures later in your walk.

-The Gospels you know,

-Acts is the Story of the early church after the Crucifixion,

-and the rest of the new testament is made up of letters and teachings from the early leaders of the church (mostly written by paul).

-Revelation is about the end times and the Apocalypse.

I would start at the beginning, in Genesis, and Matthew in the new testament, and just start to read your way through them both. Learning the history and traditions of Israel and the church will help as well...a lot of the teachings in time will give you more understanding in light of these.