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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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sex, drugs and rock and roll- a nice story somewhere in there.
Told through interviews with the main characters, this book is brilliant. It is, at its base, the story of the rise and fall of the title character’s band. As each character explains their own perspective on the experiences they shared, the story becomes deeper, richer and more nuanced. I rarely say this, but if you only have time for one book this year, this is it. Hopefully, you have time for many more but this one will deliver.
Love this book, felt like I was back in the 70’s!
Full cast audio made this a highly interesting and immersive audio read. Well done.
There’s a lot to say for this book. It was a lot like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in the way it was organized like a sort of interview, media tell-all, sort of fictional autobiography. You got the history of this 70s rock star group, how they came to be, how they lived with fame and success, and how they fell apart, with all the sordid details along the way. Drugs, sex, rock and roll. Choices and consequences.
I liked how real this story seemed. How real the emotions were, like between Billy Dunn and Camilla and even Billy Dunn and Daisy Jones. And I think Karen Karen, the keyboard player, was maybe my favorite character. Every character had such vivid personality that stayed consistent throughout, it was all very realistic and believable.
Also, the level of detail the author put into the lives and the music scene. The jargon for that particular field, and even the tiny details like how 22 minutes of song could go on one side of a record album and they had to time things just right. The way we got to delve into how they wrote their songs, what was happening in their lives at the time the songs were written, and how they evolved into this larger than life piece of success and fame.
This was a book that had me interested from start to finish. The writing was just really well-done. I think if you enjoyed Evelyn Hugo, you’re bound to love Daisy Jones. It’s drama, gossip, such flawed, dynamic, and interesting characters. Definitely a hit.
I didn’t know if I would like the format of this book, but as it turns out, I loved it. It was hard to put down once I got started!!
An original story inventively told. Brilliant. So deserving of all the kudos Listening to the audiobook is quite the experience!
Sorry, Reese and millions of others, but I wasn’t very taken by this book. It was anticlimactic. I love Stevie Nicks too but this book wasn’t half as entertaining as I hoped it would be. It was a quick read. I think that Taylor Jenkins Reid liked her characters too much to cause them too much drama. I didn’t hate it, but I don’t think it lived up to all the hype.
Daisy Jones and The Six was such a well-written novel. The story is told through interview transcripts which adds nuanced layers to each account of the band’s formation, rise and ultimate demise. I was rooting for the characters and wanted so much for them to succeed. The author did a fantastic job in capturing the tension, the egos, the love, the fame, the strengths and the weaknesses of a legendary band.
Everyone I know had to Google to see if this was a real band. It was very well written, kept your interest and was easy to read. Enjoyed this book!
This was my first Taylor Jenkins Reid, and a total Bookstagram-made-me-do-it buy and read. It was also one of the most fun reading experiences I’ve had in a long, long time. If you’d told me I’d be so totally drawn in by a full-length book written in an interview-style, I would’ve given you some serious side eye, but I picked this one up and completely couldn’t put it down. I read it basically in one day – and yes, I avoided work because of it (I work from home, so this isn’t as bad as it sounds, but *still*). Daisy made me think of a 1970s Florence Welch with her damaged, hard drinking vulnerability, and her tendency to perform bare footed, even while being hard and funny as hell, but it was Karen and Camila who I connected with the most, and for totally different reasons. I loved the way Jenkins Reid was able to thread through the idea that memories are so essentially fallible without making a big deal about it, while also telling a really great story with style, wit, and aplomb.
Kept me interested
One of the best books I’ve read in recent years. There. I’ve said it.
This story is the biography of 1970’s mega rock band Daisy Jones & The Six, who skyrocketed to fame only to abruptly break up the band at the height of their popularity in 1979. Told from the point of view of the band members, their manager and friends/family, you learn of the behind the scenes drama cultivated by the sex, drugs and rock and roll that dominated that era.
This is how I imagined Fleetwood Mac was.
Although this is not a genre of music that I really listen/listened to, I always love a good documentary with a VH1 Behind The Music Feel.
Loved
Loved it. It took me back to that time in my life that I also lived thru. Read it in two days.
All the feels!
I loved this book.
A highly entertaining page turner told in an innovative format that captures the spirit of rock n’ roll and the seventies.
I just loved how this was written. Interview style. I’m a sucker for varying view points. And now I’ll add Tyler Jenkins Reid to an auto-author. I’ve now read two books that she has written and both were great. I’ve added the rest of her books to my wishlist. She has this great flow to her writing. The pages wiz by. But it’s her characters that you really get to know…and when authors can do that, I think it’s magic. Daisy Jones & The Six is about a 70s American rock band. Their rise to fame, their personal struggles, and their ultimate demise. I really enjoyed it and I recommend this book.
I don’t understand the hype. For me, Daisy Jones and her six is only meh.
Every rock fan in the world needs to read this book. Its appeal is so universal I’ve recommended it to fellow rock star romance fans, and male friends who like rock biographies. It’s a style and type of story not like anything else, so you can’t put it down because you don’t really know where the story might go next or what the author could be planning. Told all in oral interview style, it’s a really unique format that normally would make it hard to connect to the characters, but Reid pulls it off effortlessly. Such an involving story that I was left with a book hangover for days, aching to YouTube songs by this band, only to remember THEY ARE FICTIONAL and I couldn’t. Can’t wait for the Amazon prime series!