A good novel should stop dinner conversation for at least ten minutes?

Given the choice, I would almost always prefer to read a good novel.

Well, good novels, in my view, are better made than real life.

I can imagine his writing a good novel about it.

There are just three rules for writing a good novel.

The result might have made a fairly good novel in itself.

After all, that's what reading a good novel is like.

Discussion question: Talk about a good novel you have read recently.

But is it any way to write a good novel?

"On the Road" is a great book without being a really good novel.