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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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It had great flavor and intrigue. Not much more to say than that. Worth a day or two investment.
I loved this so much. She is so freaking talented. One of my absolute favorites!
This book is really special and it deserves all the praise it’s getting. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid is so intimate that you feel you know these characters personally. And by the end, you wish you could listen to their songs and buy their music to re-live that time in their lives with them and hear it for yourself.
When I was done with Daisy Jones & The Six, I felt like I had listened to their music and wanted to revisit their music again. It felt familiar and new. Taylor Jenkins Reid is that good of a writer and needless to say exceptionally clever. This was my first book by Taylor Jenkins Reid but it won’t be my last.
I wasn’t sure I was going to like reading a book in an interview type format but I was surprised…I loved it! There were a number of characters, normally I don’t like that cuz I get all confused lol, but it really worked. It was an amazing story I just couldn’t put down. Do yourself a favor and read it!
So I’ve listened this book on audiobook and it was an amazing experience.
This is a story about a successful group of rock that I wish so bad that truly existed, about their rise to success and the reasons of the split of this group.
While reading I wished to listen to their songs, and it was so perfectly written that you could feel what the characters felt and understand their motives and decisions.
What do you do when you have to choose between your career and your personal life????
Read this and even better listen to the audiobook, you won’t regret it 😉
I am struggling to articulate everything I feel about this beautiful, powerful, incredible book. I can’t speak to the experience of reading it on the page (though I will definitely be buying a copy to have on my shelves), but the audiobook was THE best one I’ve ever listened to. Each of the voice actors encapsulates their characters so completely, to the point where, in the story’s most raw and intimate moments, I felt like I was eavesdropping on real people as they shared their deepest secrets. In fact, everything about this book is so real to me. Daisy Jones & The Six are real. Their music, even though I never heard a note, is real. Their struggles and heartbreaks and joys and successes are real. I don’t know how Taylor Jenkins Reid did what she did in this novel. I only know that it’s a groundbreaking and exciting promise of what storytelling can achieve.
Things I LOVED:
1. The characters—particularly the women, each of whom fight against the expectations set for them in a male-dominated world and find ways to thrive just by being themselves. The book features Daisy Jones in its title, of course, but it’s actually Camila who is now one of my favorite characters EVER.
2. The different monologues (particularly Billy’s and Daisy’s) of what love is and isn’t, what it means to them and what they want it to mean. So gorgeous. So breathtaking.
3. The music—again, we never hear a single note (because it’s a book, duh), but we know it anyway. We can feel it as if Warren is right in the room with us, rattling our bones with his drums.
4. The ending. Oh my god, the ending. It is so tender, so redemptive, so powerful, so perfect.
Things I didn’t love: Literally nothing.
I know there have been mixed reviews about the reading experience of the book, so if you tried to read it and got lost in the back and forth of all the switching characters, do yourself a huge favor and invest in the audiobook. This is a story that is meant to be heard, and I’m so thankful to Taylor Jenkins Reid for writing it.
Thanks to Goodreads and the publisher for an arc.
I finally finished Daisy Jones and the Six. Truth be told, I read it slow because I didn’t want it to end! It was everything I expected and more. Told in an oral history question answer format, except no questions. It’s like a behind the music story. Band members and producers, spouses etc. basically just talk about the rise to fame for The Six, and the even higher level of success when the band becomes Daisy Jones and the Six. It’s so well written and completely realistic. I swear they must have been a real band in the 70’s. Daisy, Billy, Karen, Graham, etc. are so alive. Daisy grew up too quickly on the sunset strip. She is troubled, lonely, naive, longing to feel like she belongs and talented, though she would rather write songs than sing. She’s self destructive, wild and making bad choices. People see her beauty and talent not her problems. Billy is a talented musician, band leader and a man who fiercely loves his family. He is also easily prone to addiction, bad behavior and is pushy sometimes with the band because he wants it his way. Daisy and Billy obviously have a connection from the start. Each band member has a unique situation and problems to work through in addition to their music. We see the same situations through different perspectives, and it’s amazing how differently two people can see the same event. The dynamic and complex interactions between them all weave together seamlessly to create the overall story. No spoilers. There was a little twist at the end that gave more closure to the story. It’s exceptional and lives up to the hype. You will not be disappointed. @tjenkinsreid has created a masterpiece of rock and roll history, even if it’s not real.
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Fabulous! A rock biography written as a series of interviews with members of a fictional chart topping 70’s band, The Six, new singer/songwriter Daisy Jones and members of their entourage, this page turner has it all – great characters and all the sex, drugs and rock’n’roll of the period.
I adored this book.
It’s so completely different from anything I’ve recently read. I do love my psychological thrillers, but sometimes it’s nice to jump into a totally different world. Daisy Jones & The Six perfectly fits the bill.
There’s been so much hype surrounding this book that I’m sure you know the premise by now: set in the mid-sixties through late seventies, Daisy Jones & The Six is about the rise and eventual fall of a fictional rock band. It reads like a Rolling Stone interview, or an episode of Behind the Music, which is an interesting and effective approach to the subject matter. I was immediately immersed in the story, but this also means I flew through it so quickly that I was sad when it was over. It drew me in so completely that I actually forgot this was not a real band.
Sex? Drugs? Rock ‘n’ Roll?
Daisy Jones & The Six has all this and more. I’ve heard that it bears more than a passing resemblance to Fleetwood Mac’s history, which makes sense as the author herself states that she was very much influenced by Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks (a living goddess if there ever was one). Every character is flawed, because, life. The descriptions of the songs, the music, are so complete, I could almost hear them in my head.
Last summer, Amazon ordered a 13-episode limited series of the book. The series will be co-produced by Amazon Studios and Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine banner. ALSO: Amazon will be distributing original music from the television adaptation exclusively through Amazon Music.
And I.Can’t.Wait.
If you don’t like the format of the book, try the audiobook. It’s like being in the room with the band members telling their story.
SEX, DRUGS, AND CHASING NORMAL.
First of all, let me say how genius this book was. I mean, to write a fictional novel through the eyes and interviews of the band. I’M NOT WORTHY!
I loved this book, and I think it was because of the audible. I was there. They were talking to me. I felt I was the one doing the interview, hanging on to each little word.
Daisy and Billy’s relationship made ME walk on eggshells. Daisy’s free spirit and lacks-a-DAISY lifestyle made me scream—Oh come on, we all want to live like that. But just because we don’t, doesn’t mean we can’t get our sexy on. And…it will bite you in the ass someday Trust me. But…I did love Daisy.
Billy. Okay, please, please see what you have in Camille. The love he had for this woman, I felt in my toes. And his out of control, weak moments had me spitting fire. I loved Billy as well.
Camille—“Your weak moments do not get to dictate how I get to spend my life.” Loved her will and determination.
Karen—loved her voice and the support she gave the band. Just wish….I won’t say and spoil it for you.
And that author’s note!!!!! BRAKES! STOP! SAY WHAT???? PURE GENIUS!
AND THAT ENDING!!! AWE! I’m still coming down from that bonus track. Let me just say, listen to the audible and live the life of the band. Go on the road and be a personal roadie. You won’t regret it.
The whole time I read this book I had to remind myself it wasn’t about a real band. But it felt so real. And I desperately wanted to listen to their album. LOL Loved all the characters and all the viewpoints. Really enjoyed.
Daisy Jones & the Six is the latest book club pick in the Reese Witherspoon book club. It’s getting a lot of fantastic reviews and positive comments on social media. It’s written in a different style and you feel throughout that you are reading a nonfiction book about the rise and fall of a band in the 70s instead of the fact that you are reading a fiction book. There are interviews with all of the band members, some of the family and others who were part of the dramatic popularity of the band and with most memories, the memories of two people about the same situation are in totally opposite from each other. This is definitely a book about Sex, Drugs and Rock&Roll.
When the novel begins, Daisy is a beautiful teenage girl in LA who gets involved with rock bands and drugs in the late 60s. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll is what she loves the most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed and she gets the opportunity to sing with an up-and-coming band called THE SIX. At first when she starts to sing with them, there is lots of animosity from the lead singer, Billy. After he gets to know her better and realizes what a great addition she is to the band, he becomes nicer to her and begins to write songs with her. The album that they write, Aurora, becomes a huge hit and they become more popular than they ever dreamed of…until they all just walk away at the height of their popularity and never sing together again. This book explains the rise and disappearance of one of the greatest bands of the era and it’s often difficult to remember that this is a fictional band and not a real band of the 70s.
This is an interesting look at life during the 70s. It’s written in a different way and once you get used to it, it’s fun to read. Warning – there is a lot of sex and lots of drugs in this book. For me, that lessened my enjoyment even though they were necessary parts of the plot.
If you want to read the book that everyone is talking about, give Daisy Jones & The Six a read…I don’t think you’ll regret it.
I loved this book and the way it was written it reminded me of VH1 behind the music. A time when sex drugs and rock and roll was at its peak this book delivered. It shows the band and the journey they took all the struggles and the triumphs.
I loved everything about this. The style it was written was completely different than most books and it just seemed like you were there on the journey with them. It was also hard to remember it’s not a biography.
Excellent book and awesome journey back in time. If you are a music fan or not this book is amazing. It took you into their personal lives as well and just because your rich doesn’t mean you don’t have demons as well.
I enjoy Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books, mainly because her voice and her stories are so original.
Daisy Jones & The Six truly transports you back to the drug-fueled rock and roll era of the 1970’s, and the interview-style manner in which the story plays out makes for an engrossing read.
I was happy to hear this has already been optioned for a miniseries…I will definitely be tuning in.
I enjoyed this book and it is not what I typically lean towards reading. This read as more of an interview/documentary of a ’60/’70 era rock band and the pitfalls of being in a band in that time. We get to know Daisy Jones and all the band members and are there for their rise to fame and again on their way down. I read this one over the weekend during a snow storm with music playing in the background, definitely the way to go! I’m not going to tell you anything more about this one other than it is a page turner and if you are looking for something just a little different give it a try, you will not be disappointed.
I’ve read a few of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books and really enjoyed them so I was really excited to receive an advanced copy of this one through Netgalley. The book is set up differently from others, its like reading the transcript of an episode of “Behind the Music.” Each character’s perspective is there, interspersed with others talking about the same events. Its mostly linear in terms of time, and while some characters are more developed than others – there aren’t too many characters. It’s enjoyable, you want to know these people and listen to their album. Except that it’s not real, but it certainly seems so. It’s pretty true for the time with all the drugs, partying and rock and roll from what I know about the 1970s, its almost like the movie Almost Famous in a book form. The reveals at the end were a nice touch as well. It’s a good read that I certainly recommend. I also loved the Spotify playlist that goes along with the book, and the song lyrics at the back of the book. *received as an ARC from NetGalley, all opinions are unbiased*
This book is to Rock and Roll what the 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was to the Silver Screen. The book is written as an in-depth interview, think Rolling Stone or a MTV special, of members of a mega band from its beginning to current days. It is so well written, a beautifully told love story. Sex, drugs and rock n roll! It was interesting to see how people remember the same times differently. Three sides to every story: yours, mine and the truth!
After reading two books by this author, I’m adding her to my list of “I’d buy anything she writes”. Her writing is unique and enjoyable. Characters are real, and although situations believable to the story line. I can’t wait to see what Ms. Reid does to top this! Warning: clear your schedule when you pick this book up. Fast and furious read!
Thanks to Net Galley and the Publisher for this ARC. Opinion is my own.
When it girl Daisy Jones is paired with rising rock band The Six, the result is a level of talent and chemistry never before witnessed in the music industry. But with all success stories, there are challenges hidden behind the scenes. The complicated relationship between band mates, the precarious balance of group dynamics, respect for the interdependent and connected artistic process, and everyone’s personal demons that choose the perfect moments to come out and play.
Daisy Jones and The Six is organized into a flawlessly arranged compilation of interview responses from band members, crew, family, and industry elite, allowing readers to follow most everyone’s point of view while reflecting on what led to this fictional band’s infamous split in 1979. The author excels at showing how perspectives can differ so greatly it’s almost comical. But it’s painful too. The culture of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll was running rampant, but it doesn’t mean everyone was having fun. Addiction was a well-explored element in this story, showing how it touches every part of the human condition, creating lies, crossing boundaries, and damaging self-control. Another memorable element was the bold strength of the women featured. The 1970’s setting was the time of second wave feminism, and subtle and not so subtle shout outs to this movement were threaded throughout this book. Full of impressive depth, a fun writing style, and the palpable feeling of “making the greatest f@cking music in the world”, Daisy Jones and The Six was an incredible reading experience. You’ll have to keep reminding yourself it’s fiction. I can’t wait for you to read it!
Thank you to the following for permitting me access to a digital review copy of Daisy Jones and The Six. This generosity did not impact my honesty when rating/reviewing.
Source: Edelweiss
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Publisher: Ballantine Books – Random House
On Sale Date: March 5, 2019
I received this book from @NetGalley. This was an A M A Z I N G book! I loved every single page.
Every now and then, you run across a book like , “Daisy Jones and the Six”, and it just leaves you wowed, and that I was!!!!!!
The book sort of reminded me of a Behind the Music interview, but way more detailed . (you also get to know why Daisy is the way she is) The book was fast moving, entertaining and emotional. You have a group of young people wanting to make it in the music industry, playing the typical bars and dives, and they decide to head to LA, and make their dreams come true. And that they did. Especially, when they crossed paths with Daisy Jones, a
young, wild girl, who just emitted a cool, hippy vibe, and wiser beyond her years. Daisy wanted to be song writer and when she crosses paths with the band, The Six, she becomes that, and a lead singer, hence the name, Daisy Jones and the Six. The book continues with the struggles of each band member, and takes you on a journey into the professional and personal lives of each member of the group, each having their own commentary through out. As the band’s fame rises, so does their “Sex, drugs and Rock n Roll lifestyle,” In the end, they question is it all worth it, as the fame takes a toll on their personal lives.
Just a phenomenal book! I just ordered some more books by this author, can’t wait to read them as well!!!!
Thanks so much @NetGalley