Wonderfully short autobiography of Alice Cooper. He refers to himself only as Alice, but also refers to the band as Alice, and I'm not an Alice fan (although I certainly enjoy the hits), and yet he makes it perfectly clear that he is not Alice. One is a persona, a show designed with purpose to entertain and cleverly marketed to shock and outrage parents and authority figures. But the man's story begins and ends with his Christian faith, too, and I find it curious that unlike his show persona, his faith is private, personal, and does not in any way resemble that of showy, well-marketed televangelists and their ilk.

I enjoyed his anecdotes, and even more the acoustic snippets of his music. I also appreciated that he shared his struggles with fame and drugs and alcohol without endlessly wallowing in it. I am deeply unhappy that he didn't talk about the Muppet Show appearances.

Audiobook freebie via the Audible Plus catalog. Read by the man himself. ( )