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Summary: Overly wordy and a horrible typeface for this edition
Comment: This book is short, but it's still a lot longer than it needs to be. 90% of the book a collection of anecdotes that get quickly tiring.
Ironically, the publisher of this edition completely fails to follow the basic idea behind the book. The typeface is clunk and poorly spaced, and print quality is mediocre. I've never written a complaint about the production quality of a book before, but this one is seriously hard to read if print quality is important to you.
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Summary: Very useful information, sullied by marketing and 'filler'
Comment: I have mixed feelings about this book and this author. I'm sure that the information is very useful - an important education for all and therefore worth every cent. However, I do think the author was quite brave to publish an entire book around those snippets of information. Even though it's a slim volume it's still mostly 'filler'. However, don't necessarily let that detract from the value of the core information.
What does detract, though, is the way it comes across as quite a thinly disguised marketing exercise. Not that there's anything wrong with marketing per se - good on him for getting out there and getting wealthy - but it does grate.
(It must have worked though, because he's bold enough to ask for US$600/hr for consultations by phone!! In that sense buying the book is a very sensible compromise, because really, who of sound mind would pay that?!)
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Summary: Helps to improve and give info about your voice
Comment: I was looking for a book that helped me to improve my voice, and I found one. It is easy to read book, and it give you informations how to make your voice better.
It make you think about how importand your voice is, and that you should take better care of it, after all, there is so much about your voice, that reflects your personality. Your voice, is the identidy of your personality. I think people should think more about how they speak.
We are always using the voice image, instead of speaking the way we where born to speak, which by the way is the way we spoke after learning it from your closest people(parenst, teachers, friends) This book has exercises to find and use your natural voice, and the exercises are so simple..
The problem for me was, that in the beginning of the book, it was alot about exercises and information about the voice, which was great, but in the second half, it was to much about people who had some voice problems, and decided to use these simple exercises, to fix the problem. And it worked, even though many had tried very expensive ones, and complicated ones, these worked, and they are very simple, and not many.
Overall, Great book!
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Summary: could be shorter
Comment: after the first few chapters, its all pretty much the same thing, so I don't know why its so long.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Quite Enough
Comment: Not quite enough. Not enough pages. Not enough exercises. Not enough real models of good voices (The book does not include a CD as is truly necessary for this sort of thing) Not enough visual illustration. Not enough good science (What does it really mean to say 'the voice should emerge from the upper two-thirds of the air passageway leading to your mouth?")
On the other hand, too much. Too much motivational schlock. Too much celebrity name dropping. Too much evidence of the hurriedness with which this book was put together.
I hope the author will remake the book, include a CD, explain the science better, and get rid of the pages devoted to hyping voice training. The fact the reader has spent money makes that superfluous. Let's try again!
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