I really like reading. I'm currently reading Ender's game right now. Do you like reading?
I am not a big reader of novels I guess because they are usually considered a long prose, and I lose interest
I think some can be really be boring like Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice but it really just depends on the genre. I really like sci-fi and mystery novels. 
it is said that the formal novel was first written in the early 18th century
Interesting. What makes the novel formal?
that is just what Ian Watt wrote on his 1957 book Rise of the Novel
I'm not sure I would read that book. It doesn't sound that interesting!
Miguel de Cervantes was sited as the first European novelist of the modern era, he wrote Don Quixote