i prefer reading to sports.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A novel is any relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, and typically published as a book. The genre has been described as having \"a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years,\" with its origins in classical Greece and Rome, in medieval and early modern romance, and in the tradition of the novella. The latter, an Italian word for a short story to distinguish it from a novel, has been used in English since the 18th century for a work that falls somewhere in between. Ian Watt, in \"The Rise of the Novel\", suggested in 1957 that the novel first came into being in the early 18th century. Miguel de Cervantes author of \"Don Quixote\" (the first part of which was published in 1605), is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era. The romance is a closely related long prose narrative. Walter Scott defined it as \"a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents\", whereas in the novel \"the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society\". However, many romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Bront\u00eb's \"Wuthering Heights\" and Herman Melville's \"Moby-Dick\", are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a \"kindred term\".\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I always preferred reading to playing sports. I'm not a bulky guy. How about you?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I love to read! Especially novels, which are typically long works of narrative fiction. Do you have a favorite author?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "To be honest, it varies with age. A few years ago I would have said J.K. Rowling, Brian Jacques, or Jules Verne. Now it's Stephen King, James Patterson, or similar."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "All great choices! I think Walter Scott summed up novels the best when he said of novels, \"the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society.\" Very different from poems."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, that's deep. I like it! And, yes, it's very attuned to the personality of the reader. After all, imagination is simply the inner reflections of your fantasies"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I love that! It's hard to believe that novels have been around since 1605 when Miguel de Cervantes wrote \"Don Quixote.\" Times sure have changed! "}, {"role": "user", "content": "You have a good point, though. A lot are based off reality and modern affairs. At least, to a degree. I always like to say that behind every story is a spin of truth. With that said, for as long as we've been able to write...novels have been a great tool :)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "They sure have been! I do still love classics like \"Wuthering Heights\" and \"Moby-Dick\" too. They are still relevant today! Do you agree?"}]