End of Summer Reading

I'm always reading. It's a really basic thing for me. The problem is that while I read a lot, I don't read any of those old, think classics. I have tried but just never stuck with them. But of course, when school ended my English teacher I should read this book called Les Miserables which they read in a different English class.
Now it's about a month til school starts and I've finally gotten around to getting the book. But problems arose. 1. The book's already check out. 2. the book seems really really boring. *sigh*
I went and stacked some other great classics though. The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (or something like that), a Hugo Victor book, and a Dickens book. Of course, I have my other odd assortment of whatever caught my eye in the library but otherwise,... those books are going to take forever to read.