Reader discussion: King Solomon's Mines

Public reader discussion about King Solomon's Mines in the WeRead Catalog by H. Rider Haggard.

What would you consider the most overlooked title written by a famous author ?

By midnightcarrot1972

I honestly don’t think The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien / Christopher Tolkien gets nearly the credit it deserves. Christopher did an amazing job sorting through his dad’s notes, and the whole lore and the huge scale of it is just incredible—makes the Lord of the Rings stuff feel a lot more tame to me in comparison. Also, some of those lesser-known titles here were totally new to me, so that was really cool. And it sounds like a bunch of authors were pretty bummed that the books they mentioned weren’t getting read nearly as much as the more commercial ones. Hopefully we can help change that and get the word out a bit more.

I hope this isn’t much too specific but I really enjoyed the full audible versions of around the world in 80 days and treasure island. Can anyone recommend anything similar?

By sleepyEagle

Not totally sure what to make of this, but it feels the same as the part above.

Sharon Stone & Richard Chamberlain as Jesse Huston & Allan Quatermain in: King Solomon's Mines (1985) by J. Lee Thompson

By strange_scarf849

I stumbled on this movie and actually had a pretty good time with it, even if it felt like a cheaper version of Indy and Marion. I’m kind of wondering if they should make a fresh Alan Quartermain movie/tv series though, because the last couple Indiana Jones films didn’t really hit the mark.

So I just finished “King Solomon’s Mines” and I loved it. Can y’all recommend to me some more books, fiction or non, that are of a similar subject? The whole uncontacted natives, lost civilizations, ancient ruins and the like?

By desert-volume

You should check out James Rollins—he has some stand-alone books too, plus the Sigma Force series.

Are the lost mines of King Solomon a real legend, or did H. Rider Haggard make them up?

By atombeacon789

I read that ancient miners in Michigan pulled up something like half a billion pounds of copper over thousands of years. Not sure if it’s actually Solomon’s mines or whatever, but mining in general definitely isn’t some brand-new thing. Edit: this was Isle Royale and the Keweenaw peninsula.