Stop Committing Voice Suicide [Paperback]

Morton Cooper (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 170 pages
• Publisher: Wilshire Book Company (July 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879804378
• ISBN-13: 978-0879804374
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #965,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One page of information, 169 pages of meandering drivel, November 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Stop Committing Voice Suicide (Paperback)

In short, he says to focus the voice in the mask (the nose and lip area), breath from the 'midsection' (or, abdomin, as most would call it...) and speak at your optimal pitch level. All the rest is Dr. Morton raging against the vocal establishment machine, and telling us how horrible most all ENT advice is.

Save your money; I wish I had saved mine...

Instead, see any of Patsy Rodenburg's books.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointing, August 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Stop Committing Voice Suicide (Paperback)

In my opinion this book serves as one large advertisement for Dr. Cooper. It gives him a chance to toot his own horn. I would have found it much more useful had it provided a step by step progression of excercises to help people use their natural voice. Even had he let people know how to pick an appropriate voice clinician would have been nice. One good thing is that it does give hope to people with voice problems.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some good ideas amongst endless drivel of how wonderful Dr Cooper thinks he is..., June 3, 2002

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Simon "Simon" (Perth, WA Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stop Committing Voice Suicide (Paperback)

There are a few good ideas and solutions in this book to help people with voice disorders. Unfortunately the book is very frustrating in that it has very little structure and endless repetition of Dr Cooper's odds with the medical / voice therapist establishment. I had to read the entire book because I wanted to be sure of extracting every practical piece of information it contained regarding my voice problems. Apart from that I would have set it down very early.

Dr Cooper endlessly trumpets on about how he pioneered Direct Voice Rehabilitation against critiscm from the rest of the medical community. He devotes a whole chapter to questioning the ethics of the wider medical establishment in respect of the accepted treatment of voice problems. Why??? I just want to know about how to fix my voice not join Dr Cooper's self-indulgent crusade to justify himself!

Consequently, the book could have been about a third (or even less) of the size and a lot more focused on practical solutions for the reader. I have begun to read his other book, "Change Your Voice, Change Your Life" but it didn't last long as it is the same drivel with a different cover.

If you are serious about your voice, please take a look at Roger Love's work. This guy really KNOWS voices! As for this book by Dr Cooper, I wish I could change the star ratings that I gave this book to 1, but it's too late now. (I must have been feeling generous when I first wrote this!)