I loved all the little referances that are hidden in this book, it's really what makes it.

I can remember going to see War of the Worlds at the cinema and listening to the soundtrack on the way there and I had just recomended this book to my friend who was reading it on the way. We started the cd and she looked up from her book in hysterics. She was reading the passage in the book (I have no idea what page...) and it was the same as the opening with a few words here and there changed

i.e.
"No one would have believed in the last years of the 19th centuary..."
"No one would have believed in the last years of the centuary of the Fruitbat"

I'll never forget it.

I just love some of the referances, though I am sure I missed 50% of them...