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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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This was like watching a rock documentary in my mind. So real, I had to double check that it wasn’t a real band! So far, my favorite read of the year.
Loved it!!!!
Didn’t like the writing style. Bored by the conversations
This was the kind of story I didn’t want to part ways from. I didn’t want to put it down and I loved almost every single character that I wanted all of them to have their HEA. This story felt soo real I was for sure these people exist and for sure they went through all this. AND because this felt soo real the ending was just as real. Each character got their own little HEA but not what I thought it would be, not how I wanted it to be and it’s perfectly fine because as I think about it their ending was “THEIR” ending.
Here are my feelings for each character. But to eliminate any source of spoilers I will call them by #:
Character 1 ~ I’m in awe of her. All my respects for her. ALL OF THEM. If I can be someone when I grow up, I want to be her. Fierce, Fighter and the Biggest heart.
Character 2 ~ was a badass rock n roll star. I loved him and then he’d break my heart. Then I admired him and would love him again only for him to act like an jerk and piss me off. But I can’t be mad at him for too long.
Character 3 ~ is the freaken fab. I love his attitude and way of thinking and taking things in. Laid back and nothing much bothered him. He just wanted to be Rock N Roll
Character 4 ~ was difficult and unhappy from the beginning. Like nothing made him happy and everything bothered him. Omg, he got comical towards the end
Character 5 ~ is too reckless. Self observed. Starved for love NOT Attention. She’s a lost soul not even trying to find herself
Character 6 ~ is my absolute FAVORITE. I love him soo much. He couldn’t be a better brother. He couldn’t be a better boyfriend. He was just soo good.
Character 7 ~ is a bada$$ Biotch and I love and respect her.
I absolutely adored the previous book by this author, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and looked forward to this. I loved it, though maybe Evelyn will always hold a special place in my heart.
Daisy is a tortured and talented woman and the story of the tumultuous year of the band’s reign is told in alternating viewpoints until all the pieces are revealed. Fast paced, fascinating, sad, beautiful.
This book received so much hype, I was disappointed in the actual story. It’s a good book, but it just fell short of what I was expecting. It’s a tale of the rock / music world of the 70’s, and includes all the usual aspects. I also tire of the comparison to Fleetwood Mac, which it’s not. Many readers think it’s a true account of a real band, when in fact, it’s fiction. I’m sure it will be out as a movie. It’s a solid candidate for a beach read this summer.
Lots of fun, seemed like a real history of a real band. Love the differing perspectives of the same events.
The audiobook, so different, with all character interviews. So well done. At first, i thought this was a true story. Then I caught the author’s interview…
Audiobook.
It’s been a day since I finished listening to this book, and thinking back on it to write this review has me tearing up. Daisy Jones & The Six took me through THE WRINGER, honestly, it’s still taking me through. Daisy & The Six broke my heart in the most subtle way, to where I didn’t know until there were 10 minutes left in the book and I was straight up crying.
For a lot of reasons that I get, this book means a lot to me. It’s a masterpiece of feminist work, in my eyes (or ears) anyway. None of these characters are perfect people, but they are so fucking real and the emotions they express as having had, demand to be felt. Ugh, I’m crying just writing this. I think I need to relisten to this ASAP.
If you’re looking for a beautiful, soul-touching book about the intricacies of relationships and life, just go pick this up. You cannot go wrong with this book.
I actually had to take a few days after finishing this book to organize my thoughts enough to write a review.
The first thing you notice about Daisy Jones & the Six is that it isn’t set up the way a “normal” book is—a story told by some narrator, either first person or third person. Daisy Jones & the Six is told as an “Author interview”. The members of The Six, Daisy Jones, and others that knew them as they built the band, are all interviewed by an author writing a book about this rise to fame and the subsequent fallout of that fame.
In reading other reviews of Daisy Jones & the Six, I found many people didn’t like this format of storytelling. However, I thought it really gave the story much more depth and complexity than one could get out of a first person narration. I mean, you’re only getting one side with first person. Even third person narration is limited (unless it’s third person omnipresent).
The way this story was told, the characters said what was on their minds. And by what the other characters said, you could deduce what WASN’T said, the lies that were being told, and the truth that was hidden. This, in my opinion, gave greater insight to the characters and their relationships to the other characters in the book.
The story itself seems to start off like all the other rock band stories of drugs, sex, and rock and roll. And yes, there’s plenty of all of that. (In fact, I could practically hear a soundtrack to this book in my head…Taylor Jenkins Reid, get on that!) But at the heart of this book is a love story. A man who loves his wife desperately, but can’t help falling in love with someone else. You can actually FEEL the pain of the characters, feel their helplessness at their emotions. I really think it’s due to the unique storytelling method…you get such a visceral reaction to the love story by not only what those characters in love tell you, but what the other characters tell you about what they’re seeing.
I love all of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books thus far and this one is no exception. She does a phenomenal job putting the reader in the story, having the reader experience the characters, and making the reader love these characters despite their incredibly overwhelming flaws. She handles a taboo love story in the best way possible, but still makes the reader understand it, feel it, experience the heartbreak of it. And I think it really illustrates how all relationships, even those that seem never to break, go through seasons. Even in the darkest of times, the ones that survive are the ones whose love never wavers underneath the storm that’s brewing on the surface. We can’t control what we feel. We can’t control who we’re drawn to. And we sure as hell can’t control who we love, even if we try to hate them. What we can control is how we act, the decisions we make. Daisy Jones & the Six is the perfect illustration of that idea.
Definitely pick this book up…it’s not just about a band skyrocketing to stardom and crashing…it’s about all the stuff in between. And love. Definitely love.
Very different. Reads as an interview of the members of the rise and fall asleep of a rock band.
Thought it would be better.
This book felt real to me in every way that mattered. I loved that. It was as though I knew these characters–or had at least listened to them on the radio or bought their albums. It was a great read.
Great book! Having lived thru the sixties and seventies cruising and hanging out on the Sunset Strip…right by the Whiskey…this book is eye-opening and real. But, it is also funny, sad, and unpredictable. Great story, great characters…totally right-on! Read it!
So much fun. Taylor Jenkins Reid knocked it out of the park with a surprising and innovative, Behind the Music documentary style in this fictional account of a rock and roll band from the 70s. I listened on audio and couldn’t get enough of it.
Loved this book.
Such a well-written book! I loved how realistic the entire story and all of the characters were. It truly feels like you are reading about a real-life band. It was wonderful to read of characters with “human,” believable flaws. It would make a great show or movie. It was very unique! I would definitely read more from this author!
Interesting with all the drugs and sex the 2 major characters remain moral
For someone who grew up in the 60s-70s, it was all the little details of the era that gave Daisy Jones & The Six the edge it needed to make me claim it as a favorite. Smoking, the hang loose flower power vibe, the misogyny, the emergence of great rock music — Taylor Jenkins Reid nailed the culture of that early period in American rock as if she lived it herself.
“The postcard she sent just said, ‘Come to Phuket. Bring coke and lipstick.’”
“I wore what I wanted when I wanted. I did what I wanted with who I wanted. And if somebody didn’t like it, screw ’em.”
Daisy Jones & The Six is a beautiful yet deeply sad novel about a fictional soft rock band — think CSNY, Fleetwood Mac, Blind Faith — in the days of the Vietnam War, free love and psychedelic drugs. We get (often conflicting) memories of a band’s escalation into stardom, as we are introduced through interviews to the members of The Six, and to the iconic Daisy Jones, a free-spirited singer who joined them along the way.
“It is what I have always loved about music. Not the sounds of the crowds or the good times as much as the words – the emotions, and the stories, the truth- that you can let flow right out of your mouth. Music can dig, you know? It can take a shovel to your chest and just start digging until it hits something.”
This novel reminded me of my childhood in Chapel Hill, NC, where you couldn’t walk down the street without smelling weed in the air or seeing a hopeful (and usually filthy) hippie with a guitar strumming out his songs. Everyone had such an earnestness to them then, striving not to be “normal”, to buck against the establishment, and to stay cool. Daisy Jones & The Six sent me back to that magical era, and it moved me in ways I will feel for a very long time.
This book reads like a Behind the Music. Still thinking about the characters and stories weeks later.