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Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: My Twelve Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict | 
 enlarge | Authors: Keith Zimmerman, Kenneth Zimmerman
Creator: Alice Cooper
Publisher: Random House Audio
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 828503
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Abridged
Number Of Items: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0739344145
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42166092
EAN: 9780739344149
ASIN: 0739344145
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Condition: BRAND NEW
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Product Description
The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons–with a golf club. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit; a friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Cooper has been a self-confessed golf addict ever since.
Alice Cooper, Golf Monster is Cooper’s tell-all memoir; in it he talks candidly about his entire life and career, as well as his struggles with alcohol, how he fell in love with the game of golf, how he dried out at a sanitarium back in the late ’70s, and how he put the last nails in his addiction’s coffin by getting up daily at 7 a.m. to play 36 holes.
This is the story of Cooper’s life, and also a story about golf. He rose from hacker to scratch golfer to serious Pro Am competitor and on to his status today as one of the best celebrity golfers around–all while rising through the rock ’n’ roll ranks releasing platinum albums and selling out arenas with his legendary act.
Alice Cooper, Golf Monster is an unlikely and captivating tale full of wretched excess, life-saving redemption, ghoulish eye makeup, power chords, and five irons to the center of the green.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 Brag fest September 27, 2008
Being a huge golf fan and a pretty big Alice fan, I was excited to get this book. Overall this book was basically a autobiography and it seemed extremely self-indulgent. The jist? Alice is super rich, gets to golf every day, most likely better than you and if you want to join him on the course you better bring your checkbook. I threw my copy in the trash.
 Alice Cooper - Autobiography and Golf July 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When first seeing this book pop up on Amazon, i thought it was a book Alice Cooper had written about Golf. Kind of a text version of something like "Leslie Neilson's stupid little golf video"
However I was surprised to discover that this is actually an autobiography written by Alice with focus' on gold chapters in between each chapter.
To be honest, I read the first little golf bit and skipped the ones that followed and just read the biography chapters.
Alice starts from when he was aged 10 and how his family would move from Detroit to L.A back and forth till finally settling in Arizona. And then onto what Alice did in high school and how he got into playing music and writing songs, and the struggle to make it as a successful group.
Alice covers all the events that have happened with him from the mid 60's to mid 2000's. Pretty much all of the stories are there, the drinking, the chicken incident, first hit's, the break up of the original band, how he met his wife, alcohol abuse etc...
I found this to be a pretty good read for the Alice Cooper fan. About the only story I thought was missing was when the python escaped down the hotel room toilet and popped up a week later in someone else's toilet.
Instead of going for the usual tell-all tales, in between each chapter Alice writes a bit about golf, about 12 steps to to chapters how what he has learned from playing golf also adapts to the real world, and also lends a few tip's to anyone who plays golf... I don't, so i skipped most of that as I said.
Overall it's a pretty interesting read, and it's amazing just how many celebrities Alice has met, known and been friends with over his 40 odd years as one of the greatest rock n roll legends of all time.
 Alice Cooper - More Than Just Golf. May 15, 2008
This candid book tells the story of Alice Cooper as well as him giving tips on golf. If you thought it was only about golf, it is not. In fact it is so much more! Alice takes us from the very beginning of his life and keeps us hooked to the last page. He has some amusing stories to tell as well as some sad. You will learn the truth about the chicken on the stage incident and relive other highlights throughout his career..Alice is a true rocker and he still rocks hard today. The original shock rocker and still the best! Alice Rules!
Golf Monster Review April 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Where do I start? This book not only arrived in mint conditon thanks to the wonderful service provided by Amazon, but was the absolute perfect addition to my collection of everything Alice Cooper! If you love Rock n Roll, if you love Alice Cooper, or even if you just love playing Golf and need some awesome Golf Tips you gotta buy this book! Great price! This book isn't all about Golf either, because anyone who has had an addcition problem can relate to this, and it's nice to know that even a celebrity can have normal issues that we all face in life and overcome them! GREAT READ!!!
 Gutter Caddy Vs. The Jets March 9, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
First, I'm old an school Cooper fan - it was a band, not a person. Second, I don't like golf; I think it's nearly as boring as Zipper Catches Skin. So I waded through the rock and roll chapters (skipping the clearly-labeled dozen golfing ones interspersed through the book) and finished it feeling not particularly wiser about Alice Cooper. In short, it is a very homogenized history of Cooper the musician. Like many reformed alcoholics, he'll tell you he was *the* hellman booze fiend of all time. I wished he'd spent more time discussing the minutia of his early days. (And let's face it, bar a couple of fluke hits, there hasn't been much of note from him since 1977). The tedium of his drinking is equalled only by that of his Christianity, but at least he doesn't proselytise. One can only hope that in time someone will write a true and accurate history of the original five Coopers, a band of trailblazers who have a story definitely worth telling.
Now, to the golf. And this is where Alice is really scary. I decided to wade through the golf stuff and, to be honest, got more out of that than the rest of the book. In fact, by the end of his 12 chapters on golf, I wanted to go down to the local links and sign up for some lessons. Seriously. I still do, three days later. And I've never held a golf club in my life. My only complaint with the golf stuff - about which I know absolutely zilch! - was that it came across in parts as a big advertisement for a particular brand of clubs. But besides that, I'm thinking "Why not?". Hey, if it's good enough for J Mascis and the Coop...
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