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Daisy Jones & The Six

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Start date: October 1, 2020

Finish date: December 31, 2020

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May 27, 2019 Matthew rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, library, historical-fiction, favorites, 2019

I think if I had read a physical copy of this book it would have been 4 stars. But, the audiobook presentation is 5 stars, no doubt! The full cast experience as though it all really happened was riveting. I was reminded of VH1 Behind the Music.

Another thing I was reminded of was A Star Is Born. The chemistry between the characters and the battles against self destruction are strong themes in both. If you are a fan of that movie, I think you will find a lot to enjoy here.

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Nov 17, 2019 Lacey ♡☆ Ailene rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Loved

So glad this will be on television. A worthy fun read that I couldn’t put down! This author did it again

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Apr 30, 2019 Kimberly rated it it was amazing

Shelves: book-of-the-month-club-selections, ultimate-book-club-reads

This was a great book that totally lived up to its hype! It is unique in that it is written as a series of interviews with the band members years later. I loved the ending!

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Jan 08, 2020 Becky rated it really liked it

It's really a romance but I liked. It's not cliche and talks a lot about music in a sense that Music means a lot to some people. Means everything. I really liked. ...more

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Nov 22, 2020 Kristine rated it it was amazing

Shelves: grc-2020, reese-picks

I had the book, but also listened to part of it with Audio 🎧. Listening to short passages with Audio worked well, the narration was excellent and hearing some of the back and forth conversations I liked.

I put off reading this book b/c I knew it was about a band in the 70’s. Yeah, sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll, but I was afraid it would be too cliched and shallow.

It wasn’t like that at all. In the beginning Daisy Jones is just excited to spend her time at Whiskey-a-go-go and hanging out with some
I had the book, but also listened to part of it with Audio 🎧. Listening to short passages with Audio worked well, the narration was excellent and hearing some of the back and forth conversations I liked.

I put off reading this book b/c I knew it was about a band in the 70’s. Yeah, sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll, but I was afraid it would be too cliched and shallow.

It wasn’t like that at all. In the beginning Daisy Jones is just excited to spend her time at Whiskey-a-go-go and hanging out with some random musicians. She starts to get angry when she realizes she is writing some of the lyrics for these guys songs, why does she not get any credit. The other end is 6 musicians trying to find their way. They don’t even have a name yet. Daisy however, has become central to their performing. Yet, they still don’t want to give her billing in the band. Music was a man’s world and several of the women characters had to fight really hard to find their place within this industry.

There is a magic and a danger always riding on Billy and Daisy’s relationship. Sometimes, they seem apart and others, they just get each other. That combination brings about some powerful songs they write together. Their heart and soul is in that music. Both are straddled on the razor’s edge though, one slip and someone could get cut badly.

Daisy acts like she can not let anything touch her, and she won’t be told what to do. Beneath that is a very wounded young women, immensely talented, but drawn to serious self-destruction. She is high day and night. As Daisy Jones and the Six keep shooting upwards professionally, handling their personal lives becomes harder. They have a #1 Album and tour the country. Within that, they sort of live in a bubble, growing up and having such a unique experience that they rely on each other. Still, they are so young and really unsure of what is happening and where it will lead. It’s just amazing at first, until it’s not. Daisy is getting more and more lost, but she has the ability to suck your soul when she sings. All her feeling are coming out in an intense way. Billy, had been addicted, too. He almost lost himself. Now he is married and has kids and desperately wants to hang on to his grounded life. Can he do that, and still be around Daisy?

I liked this book so much b/c Taylor-Jenkins handled the narrative so well. The emotions and fast changes that occur feel true. So, when they leave their tour bus, everyone is enamored by them, but alone inside, they are just a bunch of young, messed up people trying to figure it out. They are not talking as stars, but as real people who have become famous, but playing life’s hand that moment.

Their is a scene where Billy’s wife talks to Daisy. She shows such resolve, wants Daisy to get well, but also she says some pretty powerful stuff to her. That was very moving.

Loved this book. Even with the craziness sometimes, there was such a love of music purely b/c the talent was there to put it out there. That’s the tie that bound them. Will it be the tie that destroys, too? ...more

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Jun 19, 2019 Stephanie Raffelock rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019-books

An absolutely delicious summer read. Ms. Jenkins Reid uses a unique format for telling a coming-of-age story that is both consuming and compelling. She captures the recklessness and the sublime of characters from self indulgent generation as they struggle to discover who they really are. Loved every page of it.

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Dec 12, 2022 Monique rated it liked it

Sex, drugs and rock and roll, go together like peanut butter and jelly. Daisy Jones & The Six had all three.

There is something about that era of rock in the 70's that fascinates me. These characters felt so real. A few weren't needed in my opinion. They just didn't advance or add to the story.

Daisy Jones and Billy Dunn were the real stars of this book. I could have only heard their stories and been ok. It seemed like they were the sun and everyone was just happy to be in their orbit. I still f ...more

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