What are your favourite fiction books?
Node LinkNextMy favourite children-oriented book is The Hobbit by Tolkien, which I read first in a translation to Hebrew and then several times in English. Aside from high adventure, I now realise it contained a lot of criticism of the contemporary English society.
My favourite adult-oriented book is The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand which I bought and read once, and shortly afterwards my sister confiscated my copy because she too enjoyed reading it. Despite loving it, I found it necessary to parody and modernise it, and it is likely that I had had, even back then and at least sub-consciously, a lot of contempt for the original work.
Do note that I threw away my only physical copy of The Hobbit due to my anti-"stuff" policy. It was a cheap one that featured this image of Rivendell on its cover, and which we bought in London.