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“An explosive, dynamite, down-and-dirty look at a fictional rock band told in an interview style that gives it irresistible surface energy.”—Elin Hilderbrand
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Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.
Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.
Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.
The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.
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I am on an amazing book kick lately! Daisy Jones was SO GOOD. I highly recommend everyone read this as soon as they are able. It’s a novel but it’s written as if the author has conducted interviews with the members of a hit 70s band years later, so the format is unique and feels non-fiction-esque (but the very readable kind of nonfiction). The characters are incredibly well-developed and believable — I loved and hated each of them at different moments — and the layered and complex themes throughout the story stick with you long after you’ve finished reading. Can’t recommend it enough.
What a super cool read. I could almost hear the music. Loved the fun tell-all format.
I cannot even begin to say how much I loved this book. I utterly ADORED this book. Such an original, FABULOUS way to tell a fictional story. It was funny. It was gripping. It was tragic. It was nail-biting. I loved Daisy and Billy. I loved the whole band (except Eddie, but…you know). I just loved this book. I scoured through the first half and then put it down because I was terrified of it being over and not having more words to read. Love and adore THIS BOOK! And will be reading it again and more by TJR!
If you like music, you will LOVE this book about a tempestuous young singer and the band who launched her to stardom. The structure and multiple POVs give it the feel of a Rolling Stone interview. Very unique, very well written, and so good I immediately went to the store and grabbed THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO. Taylor Jenkins Reid is that good.
Utterly addictive! The novel focuses on the creation, and eventually the disintegration, of a 70s rock band reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac. Their interpersonal dramas and relationships are so juicy and absorbing, you can’t help but become invested in each storyline. Plus, the novel is written in an interview style, which kept it really fast-paced and made it even more realistic. I had to keep reminding myself “these aren’t real people, Jo.”
I loved this book! I read the whole book on a long flight that I was supposed to sleep on, but I could not stop reading.
The characters are funny, wild, and complex — by the end of it I felt like I knew them all and that I was in the band with them. The format of dialogues is original and authentic. The pace is fast and the story is interesting. A perfect summer read!
Daisy Jones & The Six is not the kind of book I would usually pick up—a novel about the members of a rock band in LA in the 70s told through interviews is simply not a description that would have ever hooked me. BUT so many people have raved about this book that I decided to give it a chance, and I’m so glad I did. Because this is a book about love, art, pain, communication, family, and power. It’s about women living their lives on their own terms, and the characters were so wonderfully, messily human.
Sex, drugs and rock and roll in the seventies. I really enjoyed the book and think it will make a great TV series, and is already optioned by Reese Witherspoon. An interesting construction in the way the story is told (through a series of interviews). Great story, and I read it in a few days.
What an interesting book. As a writer myself, I’m a sucker for a novel approach (no pun intended), and DAISY JONES & THE SIX delivers that. It is written in the style of an interview – I mean, the entire book, which sounds preposterous but totally works.
The plot details the rise and fall of a rock band. There are a lot of characters – Daisy Jones, six band members, their manager, producer, and sound technicians. All of them have talent and ego, so the very same thing that brings the group success leads to its demise.
In interviewing the characters, the author gives each his/her own say as she paints a picture of the formation of the band, its rise, its passion, its hunger for even greater success leading to its collaboration with Daisy Jones, who is the epitome of the gorgeous, phenomenally talented, totally messed up lead singer.
This book is for those who love music and the music scene. If the characters are stereotypical, well, stereotypes come from reality, and this book is real. I struggled with the almost-constant presence of drugs and booze. But that, too, is reality.
I highly recommend this book, which I found to be surprising, intriguing, and impressive.
Absolutely loved. I can’t recommend this book enough.
This book was a fabulous and innovative creation, one that redefines the novel. Told in an interview format, it will have the reader wishing that the characters were real and that their music was on Spotify.
DJ & the Six is a book that lives up to the hype.
Told “rock-umentary” style, the novel details the meteoric rise and devastating fall of a fictional iconic rock band of the 1970s. Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll, and the inevitable wreckage that ensues, are handled with depth and emotion. The collaborative creative process is done particularly well. It’s a compulsive, unexpectedly moving read.
Highly recommended.
I am just speechless.
I did not want this book to end.
I miss Daisy. I want to be Daisy.
Kudos to Taylor Jenkins Reid for taking us on the greatest trip of our lives. Having spent years in the music industry, Taylor nailed the time/musicians. I felt like I was there. This book was just perfect. Perfect pitch. Perfect pacing. Perfect everything. I can’t say enough. I’m sad I finished. I’ve already bought it for my five best friends.
As a writer, Taylor makes me want to strive to do it better next time. To take a risk and stretch my skill. Very few books have left me with this feeling of pure satisfaction. This will definitely go down as one of my top ten EVER.
I had a lot of fun watching over Taylor Jenkins Reid’s shoulder as she played with her Fleetwood Mac paper dolls, getting them involved in all sorts of drama, petty fighting, drugs, requited and unrequited love, and fame. This was a fascinating and innovative novel from start to finish and I’m so glad I read it. As someone who grew up amidst the 1970s rock and roll scene, it was spot on and believable, reading like the best of non-fiction. My lighter is up and held high for an encore, Ms. Reid.
This book blew me away. It is so much more than a book about a rock band. It was the struggle of a man trying to stay sober and fighting it every single day. It was the story of the woman who believed in him and had faith in him and who loved him. And it was the story of a woman who hated herself but loved a man enough to leave him so that he could be happy and so that she could find herself.
One of my favorite lines of the book was something like “Daisy was fire, but we are made of water and Water is life and Camilla is my life.” I think it showed Billy Dunnes strength.
The narrative and how one event is told from many perspectives was incredibly creative and entertaining. I won’t spoil the ending but it rocked. Go read it. NOW.
Reid is a stunning writer whose characters are unforgettable and whose stories are deeply emotional… Her most gripping novel yet.
From the very first page you know this book is something special. Taylor Jenkins Reid brings insight and poetry to a story that’s utterly unique and deeply authentic, one that transports you to world of seventies rock — with all its genius and temptation and creativity — so completely it feels like you’re there.
Daisy Jones is the IT girl for the moment in the late sixties into the seventies. She is a woman who is a free spirit and has flings with rockstars and parties like there will be no tomorrow. Billy Dunne is the lead singer of The Six, a band that is on the cusp of becoming famous. He is ready to take the next step in his career but there is a woman, Camila that he wants by his side. This is the story of how two opposites get pulled together to team a band and an up and coming singer. Billy doesn’t like Daisy, Daisy doesn’t know what she did to garner Billy’s hostility. With all the friction and the band dynamics can they work together?
This is told in interview form and about the rise and fall of Daisy Jones and the Six. There is so much to the story going on with the spiraling Daisy who wants to sing, wants to write and is stifled for her effort. Billy who has a wife with a child on the way and is in destruction mode. The band who some are content with what they are doing while others are getting ticked at other members in the band. I thought the story was fascinating and midway through I was worried about how it would unfold because I had my favorite characters and my not so favorites and was worried that would flip toward the end. The end was a complete surprise, loved every moment of this book.
I have NEVER read a story that was told in such an original manner! Simply brilliant. I wish this band had existed because I want to hear all of their songs.
The author did a remarkable job creating these characters in this unusual format. I loved the “insider” feel, especially during the songwriting process. The angst she built up with Billy and Daisy was fantastic. There were so many lines about love and relationships I had to highlight. A really great book – though, I do think it could have been even better in a more traditional format. Still, a very worthy read.