50 Books in 365 Days

I've started the 50/365 project. I don't believe in making new year's resolutions because they never seem to work out but if I did believe in them, I guess mine would be that I'd like to read more.
So the way to work on this is by starting the 50 books in 365 days project. I'm starting with a book Juan bought me for Christmas - The Pinkerton Diaries by Rivers Cuomo (Weezer's lead singer).
It's an easy book to read, mostly because it's a collection of essays, songs and journal entries he wrote from 1994-97. The problem I'm having is that I grow very tired of the way he writes, very quickly. So I'll read a few pages an then I just get to a point where I don't want to read what he's written anymore.
He is either complaining about something or talking about a book or subject for school in which I have no idea what he's discussing.
So because of this, I started reading one of the other books on my list which was James Franco's Palo Alto. Yes, it's the actor who was in Spiderman and is infamous for being a pot head.
I have found that this book is very easy for me to read - mostly because James Franco is not a good writer. What I meant to say is that you can tell that he didn't feel the need to grab a thesaurus to impress anyone. They're all short fictional stories told by him. I like it.
There are a lot of classics on my list, most of which I'm going to pick up today. Somehow I have to ease into the classics because it'll take time for me to get used to the different types of writing and the vocabulary..which brings me to my next point.
The whole reason why I decided to do this was because I have a lot of friends who constantly make me feel stupid - not on purpose, of course. They all have very wide vocabularies and these same individuals happen to read...A LOT. I will be keeping a dictionary with me in case there are any words I don't understand....so I'm really hoping that this will improve my reading and writing skills and the ability to use big words without feeling stupid.