Value of Novel Reading

I have really learned the value of Novel Reading much from this previous summer 09 semester in my Theology and Literature Class. We read Novel such as Graham Greene's novel the Honorary Council which is a story filled with Greene's own theological questions and possibles thoeries of who is God and how we describe him.
Novel allow the reader to escape reality in the sense and explore a different world or point of View almost and to expereince anothers life through their insights and experiences as fortold on the pages of the book. In the Novel Honorary council I got to espace my own personal beliefs and tradional beliefs systems and really explore a different POV of a despricption of God and God's interaction with the world.
Novel can also tell us alot about our self. For instant the Novel which you like the most, like for me Honary Council I like becasue I can relate to it, not just in profession but in the theological question presented within the novel. Every Novel more or less can relate you, but the best Novels are the ones that relate in multiple ways. The relations are seemly endless. One can relate from experience, known friends/aquantces expereinces, dreams, philosophy, family, thooughts, etc. The relations that Novel have tie our minds and sometime our soul to them and reveal aspect of ourself as well as explore what our curious mind wonders about but may be against societal norm or just against possibilites in reality itself. All in all Novels have so much to offer for one's overall health and cultural health.