STEWART COPELAND

As I was trying to find another book to read (I'm bored), I started wondering what Stewart reads, if he reads. Has he ever answered that in an interview or something?

Mrs. G.

An interview from 2006 Jan.19

The Great War for Civilisation Divine: the conquest of the middle east by Robert Fisk

Five books that mean lot to him,

Israel's Lebanon War by Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari

People of the sea: The search for Philistines by Trude Dothan and Moshe Dothan

Asimov's guide to the bible

The blind Watchmaker: Why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design by Richard Dawkins

Approaching the Qur'an: the early revelations by Michael Anthony Sells

That was from a survey he answered

visions

Wot!!

You are joking!!

He's really read them.... Oh dear... How deep is that?

I suppose I should have thought that, he's not thick is he? but I don't think they are quite bed time reading are they?

I think I'll stick to my thick books......

But see someone knew the answer...... again

Kim

I can tell you about a book I've seen in the hands of Sting if you like, when I was at his hotel in Milan while he was having breakfast a couple of years ago; the title was THE SUBTLE KNIFE.

As to Stewart...I don't remember which book I saw when I looked into his bag to search for something he asked me to get for him, but I rarely saw him reading while we were around here in Italy.
We never talked about books, but I'm sure he's the kind of guy that loves reading!

Giovanni

Niiiice list. Yay, Dawkins.

When I met Ian in Arizona a few years ago, he was reading some book written in Farsi. I wish I'd remembered to ask him what it was. When I dropped him off at the airport in Phoenix to catch his flight back to LA, he joked that the TSA was going to give him a cavity search after his bag went through the X-ray machine because of that book.

Books about war, maybe are sad, but very interesting if you face that all new day is a personal war to each human being just to survive.

Now The Police is really near to begin a new war with his world tour;
Just to convince many people that they can rock the planet again...

Thoes are the ones that make him look smart, he has to read normal books...

[quote="Mrs. Gradenko"]Thoes are the ones that make him look smart, he has to read normal books...[/quote]

Well, they grew up in the Middle East and Lebannon especially is near and dear to them (go read Ian's book Wild Thing if you have not already done so), so it makes sense that Stewart would be reading books like what we saw on his list. I don't think it has anything to do with trying to appear smart or intellectual because he is smart. He was hip to things like Holy Blood, Holy Grail long before Dan Brown made them trendy because it was a subject that greatly fascinated him growing up and playing around Crusader castles. These are subject that would seem normal to him but foreign to most Americans who didn't grow up in the Middle East.

Not to mention, to some folks those are normal books.

[quote="conroy"]When I met Ian in Arizona a few years ago, he was reading some book written in Farsi. I wish I'd remembered to ask him what it was. When I dropped him off at the airport in Phoenix to catch his flight back to LA, he joked that the TSA was going to give him a cavity search after his bag went through the X-ray machine because of that book.[/quote]

Damn I miss that crazy guy! I'm going to be crying again on Wednesday....

[quote="giovanni"]I can tell you about a book I've seen in the hands of Sting if you like, when I was at his hotel in Milan while he was having breakfast a couple of years ago; the title was THE SUBTLE KNIFE.

As to Stewart...I don't remember which book I saw when I looked into his bag to search for something he asked me to get for him, but I rarely saw him reading while we were around here in Italy.
We never talked about books, but I'm sure he's the kind of guy that loves reading!

Giovanni[/quote]

The Subtle Knife is by Phillip Pullman. Second in a series of 3, marketed as kids books but are SO not kids books. They do feature kids as the main characters, but they are so deep that I don't think anyone under 16 or so would really get them. Interesting ideas, fun to read. Deep and entertaining all at the same time.

Really not surprised about Stewart's book choices. After all, he grew up in the middle east and right now there is a lot pretty heavy stuff going on, and everyone has a theory.

Mrs. Gradenko, what do you mean when you said normal books?

You mean, Sting's or Andy Summer's books?

Do you think Stewart view and read his partners books?

Nah I mean like bestsellers, and mystery novels.

Well, if you haven't yet, definitely read Ian's Wild Thing. He's way kool.