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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars El Pintor del siglo XX
El PINTOR DE BATALLAS es un libro muy interesante si se quiere estudiar, mas alla de lo sabido, la violencia de nuestra epoca.

Es un libro que revela cuan mala es la guerra y la violencia y como afecta a todos a su alrededor. La busqueda del hombre mutilado por la guerra y el encuentro final consigo mismo. Es una narracion filosofica, social, y politica...
Published on January 6, 2007 by E. V. Keyser

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A mix of war and destruction
I have read this book straight through. It makes you wander in a landscape that is not entertaining: its main themes are war, cruelty, evil, misery, poverty,... Dark scenes and certain sentences will not surprise you if you have read Perez-Reverte's books and articles in the newspapers. He tells very hard and painful stories that are not really new, because he has told...
Published on May 20, 2006 by Papagena


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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A mix of war and destruction, May 20, 2006
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This review is from: El Pintor de Batallas (The Painter of Battles: A Novel) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
I have read this book straight through. It makes you wander in a landscape that is not entertaining: its main themes are war, cruelty, evil, misery, poverty,... Dark scenes and certain sentences will not surprise you if you have read Perez-Reverte's books and articles in the newspapers. He tells very hard and painful stories that are not really new, because he has told them many times before.
Arturo Perez-Reverte was born in Cartagena, Spain, in november of 1951. Cartagena is an ancient Mediterranean city full of memories of Carthaginian and Roman wars. Nowadays he is a writer full-time. But in the past, he was a war reporter for twenty one years (1973-1994). He worked in newspapers, on the radio and TV. He has been in many wars from Cyprus and Lebanon to the Malvinas (Falkland for you) through Sahara or Tunis. His latest wars were the Rumanian revolution (1989-90), Mozambique (1990), the First Gulf War (1990-91), Croatia (1991) and Bosnia (1992-93-94). And all this experiences had come through the terrible crucible of memory to this short and painful story of this "painter of battles".
I think I have read nearly all Perez-Reverts's books. He is tough, harsh, honest, and makes good use of Spanish language. I like him, although he is not my favourite writer. As a woman, I dislike his feminine characters: just gorgeous chicks that must be very beautiful, clever, cultivated and accomplished, they speak several languages, are very elegant and misterious,... These women are able to spend a whole evening talking about a rare Italian painting. And that's great, but real women are not like that, and real women are not useful for this writer, they are not good enough, not even to have sex with them, and you can read it in this book. Sorry, but beautiful ladies and hard stallions are the matter romance novels are made of! I am not looking for that in a Perez-Reverte's book.
In the end, I think Perez-Reverte made a mistake with the genre: this should have been a play, or a movie: a couple of tough men exchanging solemns sentences, full of references, of silent moments to let the terrible stories impress you.
It is worth reading it, and it's one of the easiest to read and understand for those who have not Spanish as his mother tongue. I highly recommend it.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars El Pintor del siglo XX, January 6, 2007
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This review is from: El Pintor de Batallas (The Painter of Battles: A Novel) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
El PINTOR DE BATALLAS es un libro muy interesante si se quiere estudiar, mas alla de lo sabido, la violencia de nuestra epoca.

Es un libro que revela cuan mala es la guerra y la violencia y como afecta a todos a su alrededor. La busqueda del hombre mutilado por la guerra y el encuentro final consigo mismo. Es una narracion filosofica, social, y politica. Recomiendo este libro por todos los aspectos que indaga. No es para lectores que buscan pasar un buen tiempo o leer una aventura bonita.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Insoportable, February 5, 2008
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This review is from: El Pintor de Batallas (The Painter of Battles: A Novel) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
Hay dos Arturos Pérez-Reverte: uno que tiene la disciplina del periodista investigativo, y que siempre se preocupa por recabar detalles enciclopedísticos, técnicos y prácticos, para hacer una trama creíble.
Y luego está el otro Pérez-Reverte, dado a los devaneos introspectivos totalmente insoportabes y pretensiosos, que no aportan absolutamente nada a la trama y que el lector se ve obligado a saltear o leer de corrido.

Arturo I brilla en "La Reina del Sur" (excepto durante un interludio de casi 100 páginas en el que Arturo II, el gemelo maligno, se hace cargo y la novela agoniza). Arturo I nos brinda buenos momentos en la serie del capitán Alatriste, "La tabla de Flandes" y "El Maestro de Esgrima", porque logra mantener a Arturo II a raya.

Lamentablemente, "El pintor de batallas" está totalmente dominada por Arturo II. En las primeras 250 páginas no pasa una maldita cosa.
Y las únicas intervenciones de Arturo I son para decirnos qué pintores el protagonista intenta imitar, o qué marca de óleo usa para sus pinturas.
Ciertamente una falta de respeto al lector.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Estatico es la palabra que mejor lo describe, March 31, 2007
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This review is from: El Pintor de Batallas (The Painter of Battles: A Novel) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
Debido a que vivo en Bruselas not tengo la oportunidad de leer mucho en espanol, sin embargo trato por lo menos de acercarme a uno o dos libros en mi idioma natal por ano. Este no fue una buena eleccion!
Arturo, presenta la historia de un Pintor atormentado por su vida como fotografo de guerras pasadas, el cual solo piensa en el amor perdido y utiliza su arte para huir de la realidad que ahora lo rodea. Para tratar de poner un poco de " color " en la historia Arturo incluye a un Croata loco que busca asesinar al Pintor, por puras estupideces....Definitivamente un libro estatico, sin mas drama que el cual puede fabricarse con muchas y muchas palabras vacias...
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2.0 out of 5 stars espesa y nada entretenida, April 29, 2006
This review is from: El Pintor de Batallas (The Painter of Battles: A Novel) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
Apesar de algunas laudatorias opiniones que he podido leer aqu?, el libro me ha parecido un co?azo de aqu? te espero. Algunas cositas est?n bien, propias de todos los libros de Reverte, pero en general es reiterativo y "se le va la olla" con sus disertaciones sobre la geometr?a del Caos y la t?cnicas pict?ricas. Probablemente, y despu?s del encargo de Cabo Trafalgar, haya sido sido si obra m?s personal y aut?ntica, pero a algunos nos ha descompuesto como una de esas v?ctimas suyas de la guerra. Resumiendo, el libro es poco comercial, lo cual seg?n se mire puede ser bueno o malo, pero desde luego nada entretenido. Al escritor le pesan demasiado sus m?s de 20 a?os de corresponsal de guerra y en ocasiones acaba por desgranar unas novelas de los m?s paranoicas y entreveradas.

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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars El pintor de batallas, July 21, 2006
This review is from: El Pintor de Batallas (The Painter of Battles: A Novel) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
Nunca antes había leído a Arturo Pérez Reverte. Muchas personas insisten en que lea sus novelas de aventuras. La mayorían me recomiendan "La piel del tambor".
Yo he empezado por "El pintor de batallas", porque me lo regalaron. Me ha parecido un libro altamente pretencioso, poco madurado, precipitado, de una verborrea huera. Demasiadas palabras para tan poco que decir. Párrafos y párrafos de reflexión autocomplacida, reflejo de una realidad más ansiada que imaginada.
Hacía tiempo que un libro no me había provocado tanta repulsa. Aunque, por otro lado, el alucine de que un autor tan aclamado pudiera haber escrito esto, me mantuvo muy entretenida. Desde las primeras páginas, me llevó la curiosidad de ver hasta dónde el autor podría llevar el fantasmeo del reportero de guerra.
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