...the one that stuck with me the most was probably This Side of Paradise. [He was, in fact, looking at Fitzgerald for a reason when they were in the library.] When I first read it I thought it was kind of depressing, but looking at it now I sort of get it a lot better.

[...but he shrugs.] I think the last book I read for myself without prompting was The Hobbit and that was definitely around high school.