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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 was super excited to read this book & at the beginning I was loving the format & the characters. However it soon lost its energy & became predictable. I did finish it but was disappointed.
I have found myself reluctant to read super popular titles lately. Daisy Jones & The Six was no exception. I finally picked it up because it was a book club read and I planned to use it for a PopSugar prompt (book that won an award in 2019). Honestly, this book would have been a DNF if it weren’t for those two things.
Daisy Jones & The Six is about a rock band’s rise to fame in the 1970’s. The book is written in an oral history format, which I really enjoyed. Each character has a distinct and complex voice, which makes it easy to follow. The dialogue is very engaging and it’s a good story. I particularly liked that the character’s recollection of events do not always match each other, and sometimes completely contradict another’s POV. It made the story very realistic, to the point that it almost reads as nonfiction.
I get that this story takes place in the ‘70’s. References to drugs, sex, etc are expected. However, it was a bit too much for me, and I found it to be very stereotypical.. I understand that was a big part of rock culture at the time, and that is probably one of the reasons it took me so long to read the book. Overall, Reid brought us a fairly straightforward storyline and cast of characters in perspective.
I had been looking forward to reading this book for a while. It was worth the wait! I absolutely loved the format of this story. It is written like an interview with multiple people telling the story with varying memories. It follows a rock band in the 70s as they rise to the top. While the main characters were a Daisy and Billy, the other characters were crucial to the story. Much like a band and it’s lead singer.
While I did find it disturbing to think of so many talented musicians being such drug users and addicts, the story drew me in. Once I started to read I couldn’t put it down. I felt like I was there with these characters and I wish I could really hear their music!
This was a interesting and compelling book and one I definitely recommend!
Such an original and enjoyable book! Daisy Jones and The Six is a novel written in the style of a documentary. It’s the story of the rise and fall of a seventies rock band, told by band members, friends, journalists and others. Characters perceive the same events from different perspectives which adds a lot of humor, but it’s also a moving story, with some really great writing. I’ll be reading everything Taylor Jenkin Reids writes from now on.
I had a hard time getting into this in print, but someone told me the audio was incredible and it IS.I enjoyed it so much I actually spent more than an hour or two just lying on the couch doing nothing but listening.
It’s 100% dialogue, with quite a few characters which I realized was my print challenge. It’s really a script without scene notes. In audio, with an incredible voice cast including Jennifer Beals and Benjamin Bratt, and speakers that announce themselves by name, my imagination put it together and it was like listening to a movie.
This era (like the 60s) is hard to write about without sounding cliché. The author does a wonderful job of working in the musicianship of the characters and showing how songs are written, along with powerful personal interrelationship stories that give flesh to what could have been just a sex-drugs-and rock and roll story of a flash-in-the-pan band. It is, but so much more, told in flashback with hindsight as needed. And, at the right time, surprising author notes.
The dialogue is exquisite. The characters so real they are touchable.
This story of a fictional rock band in the ‘70s is told by the members of the band and others who lived it in first person quotes like an article. It works very well for this story. The band is formed, and Daisy later joins them. Together, they’re a better band and shoot to success with all the typical elements thrown in – drugs, personality conflicts, romantic complications, sexual entanglements. Told from many perspectives, that don’t always match, the story leads up to their final concert. Then it goes on to tell what happened to everyone and gives the lyrics to all the songs on their hit album. There were a few surprises and I liked the ending. Each character feels very real, and you don’t want to let them go. A page turner that draws you in.
Loved this book. Very realistic and you can see how rock bands fall apart so easily. Not an easy lifestyle. See who you think the book is modeled after????
Loved this book and can’t wait to read more from this author.
I really enjoyed reading this book and loved the fact that it was done as a series of interviews, which enabled the reader to get the POV’s of ALL the character involved in the storyline. Set in the late ‘60’s the story follows of the creation of a small town blues rock band, called the Dunne Brothers, which was started by brothers Billy and Graham Dunne in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
They were a young band and started out playing in bars, house parties and weddings. Later on they started playing in neighbouring towns until they were picked up by their manager, Rob Reyes and he got them signed up to a recording company called Runner Records. Ultimately, through the record label, a collaboration occurred between The Six and singer-songwriter Daisy Jones and a new band is formed in the early ‘70’s known as Daisy Jones and the Six.
The storyline has everything that you would associate with a 70’s rock band – lots of sex, heaps of drugs and of course the rock and roll. The book is really well written with great character and world building. You actually felt as if you were reliving the ‘70’s through the eyes of these characters. The storyline is original, unique, very interesting and quite refreshing. It had me on an emotional roller coaster with everything that happened within the band and the personal turmoil each band member felt and went through during their time together. I absolutely enjoyed every minute of it!
TJR is a master at writing thoughtful page-turners with plenty of compelling drama. I loved the unique format, characters, story…everything about this book. Highly recommended.
Enjoyed the historical perspective of the rock and roll era
One of the best books I’ve read!!
Loved it!
I read this ebook for free via my local public library after reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, also by Taylor Jenkins Reid. While I like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo better, this book is also wonderfully done and truly proves that the author is a master at creating truly realistic fictional worlds that feel so real you forget you’re reading fiction, and neither novel is a fluke. This story is told as an oral history of a fictional band, which makes for a unique format I quite enjoyed. The fictional biographer is merely relaying direct quotes of each character and you can truly feel each character’s unique identity. There’s also something comforting about knowing that despite the hardships encountered by the characters, by their fake involvement in this story, you know they turn out marginally okay (I like happy endings, okay?). Would 100% recommend this book.
It was interesting to revisit days of my youth but I didn’t enjoy remembering the recklessness of so many people, especially in the Arts. Still a decent story and I almost believed it was a real band..
What a fun way to take a world tour with a popular band in the ’70’s! I listened to this as an audiobook and loved the way the various characters came to life through voice–fitting for a story about music, right?
So relatable to us Boomers.
I expected more- it was kind of predictable.
Loved this audiobook!!
I liked this book, I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. Felt it dragged a little. So I did loose some interest.