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 No.16099

Has anyone read him? What are his best works, and what are they like?

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 No.16153

I've read the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and I've read his translation of the Odyssey. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a very good book, but full of inexplicable descriptions of rocks. I guess he was really into geology or something. Every new environment he enters during his journey he regales you with descriptions of the sort of rocks and sediment in the region. Otherwise it's a great book. Lawrence has fantastic prose, which is why I also really enjoy his translation of the Odyssey.

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ummm as I understand it, Lawrence only wrote two books of his own, Seven Pillars and The Mint. I've read both, the former three or four times over the years. It's a masterpiece of English literature and also a fascinating historical narrative. The movie, Lawrence of Arabia, based on this book is an excellent flick, too.

Oddly, I hadn't noticed the focus on the geology, but then I do have a considerable interest in this field. Seven Pillars describes a journey along the Arabian coast of the Red Sea through the Hejaz Mountains (pic related), among the grandest and rugged terrain on the planet and for an Englishman accustomed to the rolling green hills speckled with sheep, it's hardly surprising they caught his eye.

The Mint is a diary of his later years when he suffered PTS (I guess they'd call it nowadays) and enlisted in the airforce under a pseudonym to escape social pressures. It's a psychological study really of a state of mind within a regimented order. Interesting, but nothing great as is Seven Pillars.

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 No.16213

>>16099

I am interested in Seven Pillars of wisdom because im from Saudi Arabia , but the book is heavy and im not used to reading books this big but i will start it some day hopefully

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