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Carrie
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Aug 19, 2014 09:09PM
I've been rereading the book for the past couple weeks when I have time. There are a few references or possible references to other books/series that I've noticed, and that Pierce has acknowledged are scattered throughout the book. I'm wondering which ones other people have caught? I *know* I'm not getting all of them, so maybe with our collective mind we can suss them out. There is the LOTR reference to Osgiliath during Darrow's trip to Mickey's club, and in Firefly during the Out Of Gas episode Kaylee mentions a gravBoot, which is part of the ship and is a bit of a stretch I think. I know there is a reference to Ender's Game at some point, but I haven't gotten there yet. That's what I've got so far... Anyone else?
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It's on page 75 of the hardcover, "Two small men with quick green eyes and bald heads studded with metal spikes and tattooed with shifting digital codes suggest for me a trip to someplace called Osgiliath."
Also, there is what seemed to be a Harry Potter reference after the students are picked into houses and sit down at long tables under a ceiling which is animated to look like the sky...
When Darrow is undergoing his manners training to become a gold, it kinda reminds me of Eliza Doolittle's training to become a lady in 'My Fair Lady.' Then there are the golds themselves. Their names strike me as very Roman and their whole way of governing and manners seems to support this. And with the way they allow the pixies to waste seems to suggest the Fall of Rome as the reference point.
And the last one that stuck out to me is when the house leaders sit in their hover pads and watch their recruits battle each other. If that is not straight out of 'The Iliad,' I don't know what is. Especially towards the end when the house leaders start to cheat by helping their favorites.
