I'm not a former Muslim or a Muslim. I'm only an ex-Christian who live in a Musiim Ghetto in France
(there are between 20-40% of the poppulation in my neighboorhood) where the indigenous European are the majority
(Indigenous French like me are a minority but I don't care). Even if this is a Muslim Ghetto you have few chance to be mobbed , robbed or killed.
(I precise it because generally these zones contain a high rate of criminality).
If you want to know the reasons , you can ask me.
There are many manners to read it
(I can't cite all of them).
The Islamic way :You read it in Arabic with the help of a translation or not and you read the comments about these verses who was made by Muslim Scholars.
These comments are called tafsir
(Arabic : تَفْسِير). This Arabic word can be translate by the
English word interpretation.
You can find these here
(Unhappily those who was wrote by Ibn Kathir [Arabic : ابن كثير] aren't here) :
http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=0&tSoraNo=1&tAyahNo=1&tDisplay=no&LanguageID=2A Skeptical way :This the Skeptic's annotated Quran :
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/QuRAn/Your own.
PS : If you want I can write for you a dictionnary of Arabic term. I can also make a list of pro-Islam ressources and critic of Islam if you ask.