The genealogies are important, but I agree boring. My first couple read-throughs of the bible, I would find my mind wandering while reading them and the information never got written to memory anyway, so I ended up skipping most of them, especially the really long ones. I personally haven't felt a push by God to read and fully understand their importance yet, but he may one day lead me to do that. In the meantime, I feel there were other things he wanted me to learn first.