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": "assistant", "content": "I have read many classic novels.  I have even struggled through Don Quixote."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah, the man of the mancha!  His windmills and donkey - LOL!  I'm actually trying to go through some of the classics as an adult now - some are still hard to understand."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes! ol' Sancho Panza, poor fellow.  Have you read much Dickens?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "No, not much Dickens.  I'd like to, but have only read bits and pieces.  My daughter and I are trying to struggle through the Scarlet Letter right now."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I love the Scarlet Letter, although it is a bit dense at times.  The exploration of the puritan morality of the era is fascinating.  Have you read anything else by Hawthorne?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "No, we are still struggling with this one - LOL!!  But I have a list of ones she is to read this year, and some short stories also."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Is \"The Catcher in the Rye\" on that list? If not, it should be.  I am currently re-reading it as an adult, and it is still good."}, {"role": "user", "content": "No, I have no added that as I have not read it personally so I was unsure about it.  So you believe it would be good for a 16 year old?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I was 15 when I read it the first time.  It is really popular with adolescents, as it deals with themes of teen angst.   It's a good read."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah then I may add that one for her.  Right now I have ones like Little Woman, House of Seven Gables, and a few more."}]