/lit/ - Literature

I tried posting this excerpt of a poorly written story I tried to make in the previous thread but got no real advice on how to make my writing better. Here I go again.

>Monday.
>Recess had just started and the students roamed the pale playground. The sky was grey and cloudy, there had been no sun for the whole weekend. The slides were rusted and the seesaw was bent. The merry-go-round made a horrible grating noise when it was spun and could barely move at all. There was barely any color anywhere, even the children appeared grey and lifeless. Most of the kids just sat around and did nothing. There was no joy, no laughter, no emotion.

I’m dumb and I need to get into complex literature. Problem is, I gave up on reading Frankenstein and I Am Legend because I got bored. Am I too dumb or do I just need to read a different type of book?