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A review by shepcatzero
Revolt in the Desert by Thomas Edward Lawrence
3.0
Lawrence of Arabia has been my favorite movie since I first saw it some 35 years ago. I have lost count of how many times I've seen it over the years — both on the biggest screens possible, in 70mm and 35mm, and on television, VHS and DVD. Only now have I decided dive into the source material as a measure of screenwriter Robert Bolt's adaptation; I plan to follow Revolt with a reading, at some point, of With Lawrence in Arabia by Lowell Thomas, the journalist fictionalized as Jackson Bentley in the film.
Revolt in the Desert is a bit of a detail-heavy slog that took me longer to read than I had anticipated, but Lawrence writes beautifully, vividly, and is every bit the soldier-poet immortalized in legend. Of the figures best known from the movie, Prince Feisal and Auda abu Tayi are revealed to have been as magnificent in life as they are portrayed onscreen.
Revolt in the Desert is a bit of a detail-heavy slog that took me longer to read than I had anticipated, but Lawrence writes beautifully, vividly, and is every bit the soldier-poet immortalized in legend. Of the figures best known from the movie, Prince Feisal and Auda abu Tayi are revealed to have been as magnificent in life as they are portrayed onscreen.