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books, comic, graphic novels, manga, novels, readingNEW YORK ā Steven Lloyd, a man who has allegedly read 200 books this year, includes graphic novels in his loose definition of what constitutes a book, according to sources.
āA couple hundred books a year isnāt even that much ā anyone whoās impressed by that isnāt a real reader if you ask me,ā said Lloyd, lovingly arranging his collection of Suicide Squad trade paperbacks next to a stack of Love Hina mangas. āReading is like breathing for me. Iām just a naturally curious person who loves experiencing different lives through the eyes of others. I honestly pity people who donāt read as much as I do. If you arenāt reading, you arenāt growing.ā
Goodreads creator Otis Chandler said his website made book measuring contests much more common, giving readers a reason to stretch their numbers.
āPeople walk up to me at parties and brag about how much theyāve read this year, but they forget that I can look up their reading lists,ā said Chandler. āThe guy who reads 300 books a year has a few Grishams in there along with a Thor: Dark World movie tie-in comic and a 1991 Archie Double Digest as well as a horizontal rectangle book of Garfield comic strips with a green plastic cover. And, of course, none of the 300 books is non-fiction.ā
Lloydās girlfriend Nancy Williams claimed she had never seen him read an actual book.
āWhen heās not reading comics, Steven mostly plays computer games, but he tells me theyāre āvisual novelsā. He says heās reading Telltaleās Batman right now. After that, he says heās going to read Apex Legends,ā said Williams. āOne time I caught him playing a dirty Japanese game and when I confronted him, he wasnāt embarrassed at all. He said he was reading an erotic tale and that it was his 103rd book of the year.ā
At press time, Lloyd was seen bragging about his stock portfolio after putting all his money into GameStop.