Sting reads..but not tediously

[Michael Bailey]

> Mark Kohut schrieb:
>
> >What else has he been up to? Reading, of course. He's got a few books going including Alex Ross' "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century," Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day" and the latest by J.M. Coetzee among them.

seem to recall from a Rolling Stone article back in the day
(or maybe, cooler yet, from Creem magazine...?) that Sting
in his early days carried a copy of Joyce's _Ulysses_ everywhere.
He's also one of the featured personalities on the "Hooked on Books"
posters, or was at one time...in fact, he may even have been an
English teacher once?
(the Sting nickname, he said in the same interview, came
from a yellow and black striped t-shirt he used to wear)
now everybody...."Roxanne..."