i read three books a week.
[{"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 have been known as an avid reader.  Sometimes i read 3 books a week.  Do you like a good novel?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "What a coincidence, I also enjoy reading books.  My favorite author is Stephen King.  I love his horror and supernatural fiction books."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I understand your sentiment.  I remember reading \"Salem's Lot\" in my younger years, and that book really frightened me."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I also enjoy a good fantasy book as well, such as the Harry Potter series.  While the novel is pure fiction, it brings about a lot of everyday social issues and religious debates ."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have not read that.  What makes King a great writer to me is his crystal clear descriptions of the settings.  Then i use my imagination to fill in any holes he leaves.  The effect is astounding."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's the same reason why I truly enjoy J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter as well.  You think flying cars and wizards should be impossible to imagine - but she writes the story in a way that it brings it out to life."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I suppose all of the truly great writers have a similar style.  Even Edgar Allen Poe's poetry drew me a nice word picture that fed my imagination."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "He was definitely in a class of his own - being the first well known writer to earn a living from writing alone.  He truly is a trailblazer for all those followed."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Also, the book \"The Fall of the House of Usher\" had a sense of dread that hung over the entire story, even though it turned out to be a tame story in the end."}]