I'm 55 yrs old and I got my first Bible(KJV) on my fifth birthday, from my Grandmother. I still have it. I have read the Bible from beginning to end more than I can count. Not because it's that many only that I honestly didn't care enough to count. I just wanted to read it to learn. I have just finished the OT, and I must admit I have learned more this time than any other. When I started I did it because I had run out of other things to read. So I decided to read it thru again. I had no thoughts of getting anything more than any of the times I had the other times.
OneMan, Welcome!
Learning about the Bible is a life-long process. It has so many layers of truth and there are certainly many portions that are difficult to understand - especially if one has not has some basic training in how to most effectively read and interpret it. While the KJV is a very important one (and you may have others), especially, in it day, there are now far better translations, as the knowledge of the original languages, scholarship and illuminations provided by new archaeological, historical finds and methodologies involved have greatly increased gotten substantially better (in many ways), it would tremendously help if you would buy a good, foot-noted study Bible. Here's a good one
http://www.amazon.com/ESV-Study-Bible-C ... tudy+Bible and others might suggest one. From a scholarship point, the Bible is the most intensely and comprehensively studied and researched book in history. And so the knowledge Bible scholar teams can now bring to some of the better modern translations has helped tremendously by offering ever-better historical, cultural and Scriptural understandings. The ESV has fantastic maps, historical contexts of the development of the canon. When I was a young man.
As for Old Testament understandings, I can't recommend enough "Is God a Moral Monster" by Paul Copan:
http://www.amazon.com/God-Moral-Monster ... al+Monster