Rock star Alice Cooper knew everything about Bond, James Bond, long before the string of movies were made. As a boy, he read every Ian Fleming book he could get his hands on.
When he was a little older, he stumbled onto Kurt Vonnegut and read every one of them. "I thought they were amazing, so funny and surrealistic," he said.
His daughter, who's 11 now, practically lives at the library, he boasts — "It's so easy to just sit, to plop in front of the TV. She doesn't do that."
He thinks the hours he spent reading to her may be one reason. They shared a love of Dr. Seuss books, the sillier the better. "He had a great sense of humor" that he shared in his books, Cooper said. "He'll never die."
These days the rocker spends most of his reading time with books that have theological themes, he said in a recent telephone interview with the Deseret Morning News. He loves studying the history of the Christian religion and other religions, as well.
He likes reading R.C. Sproul, he said. But he hasn't gotten around to reading the popular "Left Behind" series that's so popular with Christian readers. Perhaps, he admits, with a laugh, because it's so popular right now and he tends to avoid things that are too "in."