My third job, writers..

A few minutes ago, I was talking to a parther partner from Verbling (webside), a website about writers, since he studies world literature.
I don't consider myself a great reader. But there are few thing that I like more than reading a good book.
Talking to my friend, we addressed several topics. He told me that his favourite writer was Julio Cortazar. And his favourite Julio's book book of Julio's was “La rayuela”. He tried to explain something in the book to me  but that book was a bit complicated for Julio's beginners. However, as my english is a bit bad (that's not true!) , i'm not very sure what he wanted to say.
I told him about another american latin Latin American writer, Mario Vargas Llosa. I told him that my favourite of Vargas Llosa's books was “Travesuras de una niña mala / Mischief of a bad girl”. For To my surprise, he didn't like it. However, there was something that we agreed upon. We liked his works but didn't like his thoughts. I personally think him he represents the most conservative forces from the elites of Latin America.

What is your favourite book? Estoy leyendo un libro de Gabriel Garcia Marquez llamado "One Hundred Years of Solitude." Despues de leer en ingles, quiero leer en espanol.