Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: takes some sort of talent to make Lawrence of Arabia boring

Granted my expectations weren't exactly high, but this book really disappointed me. Normally I thoroughly enjoy fictional autobiographies, such as "I Claudius," or "The Autobiography of Henry VIII," or the Roman series by Allan Massie. What sets them apart from this one? A believable narrative voice. I could accept that Henry VIII would say this, or that Augustus would say that. I simpy cannot accept that the T. E. Lawrence whose books and letters I have been reading for years would speak with the voice Stevens has given him here. This is the voice of a blunt post-Stonewall sensibility, not the voice of an evasive Victorian-born, Great Depression-died man, no matter how one interprets his personal psychology. I don't mind a gay Lawrence; I do mind a silly one.Only the inherent interest of the subject is earning 2 stars out of me.