Kruppe: Brilliant or just plain annoying?

#21 Ben Adephon Delat

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Posted 19 October 2009 - 03:05 PM

Despite Iskaral Pust going on similar ramblings to Kruppe I somehow find him vastly less annoying. Kruppe is redeemed in that what he says is important but the way he says it makes me want to skip his parts

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Posted 19 October 2009 - 07:22 PM

I like both Pust and Kruppe equally they're both really funny. Although Kruppe is a bit of a dilema for me because I like him and find him funny and really annoying all at the same time. You've gotta love that bit when he was hanging on to that floating table/ deck of dragons card and says something like "Help, Kruppe doesn't like flying!"

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Posted 21 October 2009 - 06:45 AM

I think it was Whiskeyjack in MoI (I'm not sure of the page reference because I don't have a copy of the book available) who described Kruppe as being the most intelligent mortal alive, with Quick Ben being a not so close second.

I personally like Kruppe and agree that on re-reads I find more information hidden away in his monologues.

I can't see how anyone wouldn't like Kruppe or Iskaral Pust, they add humor to stories that would be rather dry without their commentary. Just my opinion though.

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Posted 10 November 2009 - 01:12 PM

I'm currently 2/3 through MoI, reading Chapter 19. In the beginning I thought Kruppe was a funny character (referring to himself in 3rd person, etc.). As the story enfolds, though, I started to think that he was very influential. I'm not sure how high Kruppe's friends are placed, but it is definitely getting very intriguing.

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Posted 10 November 2009 - 04:49 PM

Gilgamesh, on 10 November 2009 - 01:12 PM, said:

Well, one of Kruppe's friends is an Elder God...so pretty high

Also @benito...I'm pretty sure Whiskeyjack says something like "if Kruppe is the smartest mortal alive, quick is a close second"

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Posted 20 November 2009 - 10:42 PM

Kruppe annoyed me in GOTM, but when he appeared in MOI I began to appreciate him more. Yes he does have some pointless ramblings, but there is a certain charm about the character that's difficult to explain.

"Ignoring him, she stepped back out of the ellipse and began singing in the Woman's Language, which was, of course, unintelligible to Iskaral's ears. Just as the Man's Language-which Mongora called gibberish-was beyond her ability to understand. The reason for that, Iskaral Pust knew, was that the Man's Language was gibberish, designed specifically to confound women."

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Posted 04 March 2010 - 10:58 PM

EsotericForest, on 20 November 2009 - 10:42 PM, said:

almost seems as though he reads tha mhybes mind. or dreams.

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Posted 16 March 2010 - 06:14 AM

Kruppe truly is one of the most annoying yet ridiculasly mysterious characters I have ever seen. He does frustrate me very much, but his acts of pure genius and just an unprecident amount of amazingness that just spews from that beings mouth that just completely defies all truth and reality. He is a character I will keep my eyes closely on.

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Posted 16 March 2010 - 09:27 AM

Mutzy, on 08 September 2009 - 02:37 AM, said:

Kruppe provides the intelligent and humor-filled side of these novels. Without him, SE might as well have written a series of novels very similiar to Salvatore's. In essence, Kruppe makes SE unique in the way that he is not the hopeful warrior-boy looking for adventure or the cynical arch-villian type. He is a complex, rotund man with a obsession with food, pastries in particular, and a mind which can grasp a level of information beyond all of the characters, excpet perhaps for the gods and ascedants. Even then it is a very close second. To wind it all down, when Kruppe makes an observation, remember it for future events.

I think part of the idea behind Kruppe is that he, indeed fools even the gods and ascendants.

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