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": "Novels are great, any long work of fiction is a good way to spend in evening. Do you enjoy novels?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes I do! I was just planning to start the series Lord of the Rings! Have you read it before?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh I love those, the fantasy novels written by J. R. R. Tolkien. Have you read the other part of the series, \"The Hobbit\"?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I started The Hobbit once, but I couldn't really get into it. Some of those fantasy books take some time to get \"into the world\", if you know what I mean?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh definitely, especially Tolkien's Middle Earth, the continent of the Earth where all his stories take place. Have you read any other novels?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I read another fantasy series i believe was called The Malazan Book of the Fallen. By someone, Erikson. I read the first four novels, it was amazing!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I believe their first name is Steven Erikson, the Canadian author and yes those are great books"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, that's it! I think the guy was an actual Anthropologist, and is amazing at building worlds, and going deep into the character development. What do you like to read?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Close, Steven Erikson was an archaeologist. I really enjoyed the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series, myself."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Nice! I just read that once recently, only the first book of the series. I thought it was very funny but it also lacked depth. "}]