Terry Pratchett

[Skweeky1]

What has always intrigued me about the Disc World novels is that there are so many underlying different meanings which are open for interpretation.

I would find it interesting to read your views on what you think a certain book is really about.

I'll start off.

Ankh-Morpork: Synonym for New York or London?

If anyone has read 'Going Postal'

The battle between the normal post and e-mail and evil IBM as the Grand Trunk

Wyrd Sisters: Hamlet?

[MagicNakor]

Wyrd Sisters would be Macbeth, though I've not read Going Postal. Just a hunch. ;)

Death is probably my favourite Discworld character though.

:shuriken:

[Snee]

Ankh Morpork is sort of a combination of London and NY, it seems to me.
Haven't read going postal yet, so I dunno' about that.
And Wyrd Sisters is def Macbeth, as MN says.

[Santa]

Going Postal is about the conflict between email and old postal system - human vs coorporate / Microsoft etc

[JPaul]

You might find this interesting.

http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/discworld/

[Biggles]

I tend to think of Ankh Morpork as a cross between London and Cairo

[Skweeky1]

Is that because you've been readind the Alexandra Quartet? :D


PS: I meant Macbeth but I keep mixing those two titles up.
I'm also not a big Shakespeare fan :s