The Nerd Herd discussion

Hi everyone! How about a few questions to help us get to know each other better?

1. What is your favorite book?
2. What is your least favorite book?
3. Who is your favorite character from a book?
4. Who is/are your favorite author(s)?
5. Do you prefer reading actual paper books or using
an electronic reader?

1. My favorite book changes all the time, but right now I'm quite fond of A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness and the Vampire Academy books by Richelle Mead.

2. My least favorite books will always be the Anne of Green Gables series.

3. My favorite character from a book right now is Matthew Clairmont from A Discovery of Witches.

4. Charles Dickens and Kerrelyn Sparks are a few of my favorite authors.

5. I've never used an e-reader, nor do I have any intention of using one. I prefer to hold a real book, to flip pages and feel the heft while I'm reading it.

1.Right now I like Bitten by Kelley Armstrong.
2.My least favorite would be poeple who write their own biography.
3.Favorite character The Vampire Lestat and Elena and Clay from Bitten.
4. Kelley Armstrong is my favorite author.
5.I prefer paper books but I keep on looking at e-reader.Also I like to shop at Half Price Books. I like bargain shopping

1. It's very hard for me to choose a favourite book - I tend to have favourite authors instead - but I'll go with Unseen Academicals by Sir Terry Pratchett, from his "Discworld" series. For me, it just shows Pratchett's greatness - it's about football/soccer, a sport I've no interest in in real life, yet I found the book gripping and hilarious.

2. I disliked some of the books I read at sixth-form college. There were exceptions, and the ones I have to read now for university are pretty interesting, but it's so hard to study a text you don't enjoy. Generally, if I don't think I'll like a book, I avoid it. That's what blurbs are for!

3. My favourite recurring literary character is Ponder Stibbons from Pratchett's "Discworld" - he's a wizard, rather intelligent and a sort of "Medievalesque" IT, computer and science nerd. He's usually portrayed as a sort of put-upon, underappreciated character, but he gets moments of glory occasionally, and I always smile when he does!

4. My favourite authors include Sir Terry Pratchett (no surprise there!), Sue Townsend, Robert Rankin and William Shakespeare.

5. I've never used a e-reader before, but I'm looking into getting one simply because it'll save storage space! That said, there really is nothing like holding a book and being able to turn the page by hand.

1. What is your favorite book?
It is so hard to pick my favorite book but I have to go with Vampire Lestat. I read it back in 1990 and it started my love of all things Vamp. Recently, I read The Help and it was awesome.
2. What is your least favorite book?
Wicked~I really expected more!
3. Who is your favorite character from a book?
Cinna from The Hunger Games
4. Who is/are your favorite author(s)?
Anne Rice
5. Do you prefer reading actual paper books or using
an electronic reader?
I thought I'd never like an e-reader...until I got my Nook Color and I love it!!! I read more than ever BUT I still prefer an actual book.

Maureen wrote: "1.Right now I like Bitten by Kelley Armstrong.
2.My least favorite would be poeple who write their own biography.
3.Favorite character The Vampire Lestat and Elena and Clay from Bitten.
4. Kell..."

YAY Maureen!! I ♥ Lestat!!

Jennifer wrote: "1. My favorite book changes all the time, but right now I'm quite fond of A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness and the Vampire Academy books by Richelle Mead.

2. My least favorite books w..."

SOO happy you like A Discovery of Witches...cannot wait for book 2!

1. What is your favorite book?
Oh, so difficult! Like Hannah, I go by author instead of book. But I'll choose a trilogy by Nora Roberts - the Blood Brothers trilogy (Blood Brothers, The Hollow, The Pagan Stone)

2. What is your least favorite book?
Wuthering Heights. Call me a troglodyte if you must!

3. Who is your favorite character from a book?
I can't have just one - it's a toss-up between courageous Eve Dallas of J.D. Robb's In Death series, and tough-as-nails Granny Weatherwax from Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

4. Who is/are your favorite author(s)?
Terry Pratchett, Nora Roberts (J.D. Robb), Dean Koontz, J.K. Rowling, David & Leigh Eddings, Neil Gaiman, David Gemmell, Georgette Heyer

5. Do you prefer reading actual paper books or using
an electronic reader?
I prefer actual books because I love paper, but an e-book reader would be lighter and handier for carrying around every day (and I could fit more onto it).