[Denuth]

Well whatever they refer to it as, "breaking the fourth wall" it is a nice way of adding to the story

[Denuth]

well this "breaking of the fourth wall" as it is refered to, was a nice way of adding to the story

[Holsety]

What I loved best are (is?) the comment(s) on Kruppe's narrations by (presumably) SE. Shortly after Kruppe gives a little exposition on the horrors of child labor, promising hard judgment and promising righteous action, we see a beginning to Harllo's POV, not at all in Kruppe's voice:

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Young Harllo was not thinking of justice, nor of righteous freedom, nor was he idly fashioning glittering worlds from the glistening veins of raw iron, or the flecks of gold in the midst of cold, sharp quartzite.

(pg 378)

I am interested in going back once I'm done with the book and seeing if there's any more dialogue between the Kruppe passages and the others. But, for now this is the only reading I'll risk on the malazan forums since I have risked too much in the way of spoilers already.

[zwitterion]

That's only the author's voice as it is in any 3rd person omniscient narrative. I like the style too though.