It's funny how in his first book, Ankh-Morpork is more like a high fantasy city with magic sword wielding barbarians fighting in taverns and people who don't know what glasses are (Twoflower, the disc's first tourist - a parody of the typical japanese tourist with the camera - wears glasses) .. Yet, as the books progress, the city quickly becomes more modern and in the later books like Night Watch, Going Postal and Making Money, Ankh-Morpork feels more reminiscent of some kind of fantasy version of the 18-19th century (though pre-steam) London.
Either way, it's a great setting, especially when it's matured and developed a bit. A lot of the books I mentioned in my previous post takes place there. The Witch series about Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and other people in the small country Lancre in the Ramtops mountains is also very good, I think. A sort of proto-granny character appears first in the book "Equal Rites", but the series first really come to life with the book "Wyrd Sisters".
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