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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 and 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.
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 and 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.
I'm not sure what exactly I was expecting when I began listening to this book. I had reservations because of the hype surrounding the author and her books because I have hated and I have also loved hyped books. It's hard to tell which way a book will go. I had heard from another book reviewer that Daisy Jones and the Six is best read through audio book because like Sadie it has a full cast and is written like a podcast or interview. For those of you who will remember this...it reminded me of an episode of VH1 behind the music. I thought that this method was brilliant and I thoroughly enjoyed the style of writing.
It was difficult to listen to many parts of the book because I hated paths that characters went down and decisions that they made. Let's just say that the characters were truly living in the 70s with drugs and rock and roll. The book didn't always go in directions that I was expecting. The author hints that certain characters may not survive by the end but I was surprised. It is a heartbreaking story and I felt that mostly through the point of view of Daisy which I think it because she didn't have much self worth no matter what she tried to portray. I also think that she self destructed rather than facing and battling her demons. There were other characters that certainly drew me into their emotions and side of the story but Daisy was the focal point for me.
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