I enjoy reading a good novel like Moby-Dick.  Do you read novels?
Nice choice, and yes i do.  I thouroughly enjoyed Don Quixote, which is considered the first novel in the modern era, around 1605 AD.
Really?  I didn't know that Don Quixote was considered the first novel.  What is that about?  
It is about a guy who reads so many romance novels that he loses his sanity and sets out to set right all the problems of the world.
Almost like an Alfred Hitchcock kind of story.  Interesting.  How does it end?
Not like Hitchcock's Psycho, that's for sure.  Psycho deals with the aftermath of a chance encounter between a thief and a motel manager.
Yes.  I remember that one.  Alfred Hitchcock was really an unusual and talented guy.  
He was amazing.  He directed 53 films in his career, and became just as famous as the stars of the films.