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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?
Wyrd Sisters would be Macbeth, though I've not read Going Postal. Just a hunch. ;)
Death is probably my favourite Discworld character though.
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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.
Going Postal is about the conflict between email and old postal system - human vs coorporate / Microsoft etc
You might find this interesting.
http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/discworld/
I tend to think of Ankh Morpork as a cross between London and Cairo
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