Disappointment

After reading The Things They Carried, I had an optimistic view of the quality of the second book I had to read. I began to read the first 27 pages of The Sun Also Rises and I was bored. I started reading it right after I had finished my 20 blog entries for The Things They Carried and it took me a while to get back to the book. The entire story of The Things They Carried was about the Vietnam War and the soldiers' lives after the war. The Sun Also Rises is not about a war. The story is about the generation that lived through the WWI. The book did improve as I kept reading but it still wasn't very interesting. Reading The Things They Carried was pleasure reading but The Sun Also Rises was homework.