What is your favorite Bible translation and why?

[Battista Minola 1616]

I guess the King James Version because I love old English, even though it is a bit hard to follow.
The 'correcter' answer would be the CEI version, which of course is what gets read at an Italian Catholic Mass, but I don't care about specific Italian translations.

I read the Bible less often than I should but when I do it's normally my Gideons KJV New Testament.

[Battista Minola 1616]

I guess the King James Version because I love old English

Not to nitpick, but the KJV is not written in Old English.  Old English would not be intelligible to any present-day English speakers.  The coolest (secular) aspect of the KJV is how its publication in 1611 was actually a major catalyst in standardizing modern English spelling and grammar.  

I am well aware of that, which is why I wrote "old" with a small O, to signal I was using the common qualifying meaning of the word. I maybe should have used "ancient" or "archaic" to clarify. I obviously couldn't read Old English (capital O) in any way whatsoever.

Thank you @Lechasseur for recognizing what I was signifying.