Taylor Jenkins Reid

"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. Another band getting noticed is The Six, 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 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"--Provided by publisher.

A Novel

Daisy Jones & the Six

Jillian Roberts

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”

Khayyira

Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it's a gut punch. That's why it's a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesnt deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else's. It’s sacred.

NATIONAL AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2019 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - Esquire - Glamour - CBC - NPR - Marie Claire - Real Simple - Good Housekeeping - Parade - Shelf Awareness - BookRiot - E! News - Mental Floss - Paste "I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it. Daisy and the band captured my heart." --Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick) A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. Everyone knows Daisy Jone & The Six: The band's album Aurora came to define the rock 'n' roll era of the late seventies, and an entire generation of girls wanted to grow up to be Daisy. But no one knows the reason behind the group's split on the night of their final concert at Chicago Stadium on July 12, 1979 . . . 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.

Daisy Jones and the Six

rain adrastea

I said something like "Sing it so hard, so loud, that you can't control where your voice goes. Let your voice crack. Lose control of it." I gave her permission to sound bad. Think of how you sing when you're singing to the radio at full volume. When you can't hear yourself, you're not afraid to really belt it out because you won't have to cringe when your voice breaks or you veer off-key. Daisy needed that kind of freedom. That takes a crapload of confidence. And Daisy didn't actually have confidence. She was always good. Confidence is being okay being good. I said, "If you sing this song in a way where you sound good the entire time, you've lost."

I think people that are too similar... they don't mix well. I used to think soul mates were two of the same. I used to think I was supposed to look for somebody that was just like me.

I don't believe in soul mates anymore and I'm not looking for anything. But if I did believe in them, I'd believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn't, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who's suffering from the same stuff you are.

People say that life keeps moving, but they don't mention that it does stop sometimes, just for you. Just for you and your girl. The world stops spinning and just lets you two lie there. Feels like it, anyway. Sometimes. If you're lucky.

When you're in a situation like that, when you have a man looming over you, it's as if every decision you made lead to that moment—alone with a man you don't trust—flashes before your eyes. Something tells me men don't do that same thing. When they are standing there, threatening a woman, I doubt they count every wrong step they made to become the asshole they are. But they should.

SOON TO BE AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING SAM CLAFLIN, RILEY KEOUGH AND CAMILA MORRONE THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of CARRIE SOTO IS BACK, THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO and the bestselling MALIBU RISING 'I LOVE it . . . I can't remember the last time I read a book that was so fun' DOLLY ALDERTON Everybody knows Daisy Jones and the Six. From the moment Daisy walked barefoot on to the stage at the Whisky, she and the band were a sensation. Their sound defined an era. Their albums were on every turntable. They played sold-out arenas from coast to coast. Then, on 12 July 1979, it all came crashing down. They were lovers, friends, brothers. But they were also rivals. This is the story of their legendary rise and irrevocable fall. A story of ambition, desire, heartbreak and music. Everyone was there. Everyone remembers it differently. Nobody knew why they split. Until now... 'The verdict- Daisy Jones steals the limelight' STYLIST 'New obsession, incoming' TELEGRAPH 'I didn't want this book to end' FEARNE COTTON 'Utterly believable . . . fantastically enjoyable' THE TIMES 'Pitch perfect' SUNDAY TIMES 'Reads like an addictive Netflix documentary meets A Star Is Born - despite being utterly fictional. It's also a call-to-arms that when you find your niche, don't doubt, embrace it' EMERALD STREET 'Well observed, sensitively told . . . a great read' BBC 'A tremendously engaging, and completely believable tale of rock and roll excess... inventive, persuasive and completely satisfying' DYLAN JONES 'I spent a lost weekend in this book. Daisy Jones is an instant icon' ERIN KELLY 'DAISY JONES & THE SIX is a transporting novel - at once a love story, a glimpse into the combustible inner workings of a rock-and-roll band, and a pitch-perfect recreation of the music scene of the Fleetwood Mac era. You'll never want it to end' CECILIA AHERN 'Once in a blue moon you get to discover a book you end up pressing upon many other people to read. Taylor Jenkins Reid has got every nuance, every detail exact and right. I loved every word' PAUL REES 'So brilliantly written I thought all the characters were real . . . I couldn't put it down' EDITH BOWMAN 'Explosive . . . a gorgeous novel and a ravishing read' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll? You bet, but it's Daisy's refusal to become a mere muse that powers this buzzy music-industry romance' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'The characters leap off the page, seducing you with their dramas, and making you wish the band was real' HEAT 'The heady haze of the 70s music scene, and a perfectly flawed Daisy, combine to create a fresh, rock n roll read. I loved it' ALI LAND, author of Good Me Bad Me

Holly 

 You have to have one person in your life that you know would never do anything to steer you wrong. They may disagree with you. They could even break your heart, from time to time. But you have to have one person, at least, who you know will always tell you the truth.

 You need one person who, when the shit hits the fan, grabs your stuff. throws it in a suitcase, and gets you away from the Italian prince.

 Art doesn't owe anything to anyone. Songs are about how it felt, not the facts. Self-expression is about what it feels to live, not whether you had the right to claim any emotion at any time. Did I have a right to be mad at him? Did he do anything wrong? Who cares! Who cares? I hurt. So I wrote about it.

History is what you did, not what you almost did, not what you thought about doing. And I was proud of what I did.

That's how it was back then. I was just supposed to be the inspiration for some man's great idea. 

That's why I started writing my own stuff.

High school was not easy for me. I knew that to get an A, you had to do what you were told. But I also knew that a lot of what we were being told was bullshit. I remember one time I was assigned an essay on how Columbus discovered America and so I wrote a paper about how Columbus did not discover America. Because he didn't. But then I got an F.

 So in the middle of the night I was always looking for quiet things to do. My mom had these romance novels hanging around so I would read those. It would be two in the morning and my parents would be having a party downstairs and I'd be sitting on my bed with my lamp on, reading Doctor Zhivago or Peyton Place. 

And then it just became habit. I would read anything that was around. I wasn't picky. Thrillers, detective novels, sci-fi. 

Around the time I moved in with Simone, I found a box of history biographies on the side of the road one day, up in Beachwood Canyon. I tore through those in no time.

If the rest of the world was silver, Daisy was gold.

kristin :)

BILLY: I'm not saying that i didn't care. I cared a lot. I'm saying that if you really love someone, sometimes the things they need may hurt you, and some people are worth hurting for.

I had hurt Camila. God knows i had.But loving somebody isn't perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it's a gut punch. That's why it's a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn't deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else's. It's sacred.

SIMONE: But at some point, you have to recognize that you have no control over anybody and you have to step back and be ready to catch them when they fall and that's all you can do. It feels like throwing yourself to sea. Or, maybe not that. Maybe it's more like throwing someone you love out to sea and then praying they float on their own, knwoing they might well drown and you'll have to watch.

DAISY: I left the band because Camila Dunne asked me to. And it was the very best thing I've ever done. It is how i saved myself. Because your mother saved me 

I may not have known your mother very well.

But I promised you I loved her very much.

And I was so very sorry to hear she passed away.

DAISY: Camila looked at me for a moment and then she said something that changed my life. She said, "Don't count yourself out this early, Daisy. You're all sorts of things you don't even know yet." That really stuck with me.

DAISY: You can justify anything. If you're narcissistic enough to believe that the universe conspires for and against you - which we all are, deep down - then you can convince yourself you're getting signs about anything and everything.

DAISY: I'll tell you: If a friend lied to me the way I lie to myself, I'd say, "You're a shitty friend."

DAISY: Here's a lesson for everybody, take it from me: Handsome men that tell you what you want to hear are almost always liars.

DAISY: It seemed like there wasn't anything about me, any truth that i could tell him, that he wouldn't accept. Acceptance is a powerful drug. And I should know because I've done 'em all.

WARREN: You know when she had me? When i knew that song was fucking great? When she said, "When you think of me, I hope it ruins rock 'n' roll."

GRAHAM: Women will crush you, you know? I suppose everybody is hurting everybody, but women always seem to get back up, dou ever notice that? Women are always still standing.

i love the portrayal of addiction sm in this book.

DAISY: I knew getting high wasn't a long-term solution. But god, it's so easy. It's just so easy.

But of course, it's not easy at all, either. Because one minute you're just trying to nurse a wound. And the next, you're deperately trying to hide the fact that you're now a jury-rigged, taped-up, shortcuttet mess of a person and the wound you were nursing has become an abscess.

But I was skinny and pretty so who cared, right?

A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up.

Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they 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.

Another band getting noticed is The Six, 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 the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

none of these characters were likable, not even the plot itself. that was its whole charm, and it worked well. it did not try to earn sympathy, it wanted to tell its own story the way it played out— the way rock and roll was intended to be.

kiel

Reader Gyal😛

Matheus Villa

No começo fiquei meio receioso se iria gostar do livro ou não, mas conforme as paginas foram passando me vi preso na leitura, eu parecia a Daisy com as drogas dela. Na real, o que mais gostei nesse livro foram os personagens, principalmente o trio feminino (a Diasy menos que as outras duas). Camila e Karen são mulheres fortissimas, me apeguei demais com elas, principalmente a Karen, QUE MULHER!

Eu, como uma gay que adora musica e que acompanha os charts da Billboard etc, esse livro foi um prato cheio kkkk A Taylor poderia ter se aprofundado mais nisso dos charts, eu iria mais tanto! Enfim, leiam!

Maja

ang 

** spoiler alert **
           absolutely a 5 stars book.

it's the second taylor jenkins reid's book i've read and also this one has passed my expectations. i've enjoyed this book since the first page.

i've loved everything about this, the plot, the setting, the characters EVERYTHING ! 

everything is so realistic and believable and even though you didn't live in the 70s this book have a clear version of these years. i've loved the female characters so much and as tshoeh, taylor jenkins reid knows how to write a good female character.

the idea of the band was so believable and the things that happened to them make me think about how it was being a band in any generation. mostly because it's real how the bandmates thought they were there not because people want them but because people want daisy and billy, so i understand why they were mad at them. at the least i've loved the book and the characters with my whole soul and i will love them for a lot of time.

I would like to start by saying Taylor Jenkins Reid does it every single time. This book gutted me towards the end. The way I couldn’t stop crying especially towards the little plot twist oh my gosh. It immediately got 5 stars nothing less.

I didn’t care for Billy at first especially when he cheated on Camila so many times (still pisses me off and she deserved better). I do applaud and appreciate him working towards bettering himself for his family. Addiction is something I personally can relate to in this book with having family members go through both drug and alcohol abuse. So Billy’s character was sometimes hard to read due to my personal experience with people like him. But I’m so glad he realized the path he was on wasn’t going to get him anywhere and changed for his daughter. During the scene where he says his therapist told him ‘to start thinking of what I’d need to do to believe my daughter was proud of me’ then he goes “imagining myself as a man my daughter would feel lucky to have. I kept working, every day, to get closer to being that man” wrecked me to my core. It was so beautiful to see him transform into a loving husband and father. To keep denying himself from partying and to stay away from being tempted was admirable.

Daisy may have not been my favorite character but I loved her. I loved how she stood up for herself and didn’t let anyone tell her what to do. She struggled with addiction as well and I truly felt for her. She wanted someone to love her and show interest because her parents never did so she would do anything to make it happen and it was slowly ruining her. She wasn’t ever in the right mind due to being always high and that made me cry. She didn’t deserve to feel dependent on drugs or needing them to seem “fun” she would’ve been the life of the party without them if she had realized sooner. She had Simone but I feel like she didn’t truly feel like she had her at first until she got older and stopped the drugs.

Daisy was a girl who wanted to be loved and Billy was a man who wanted someone to be proud of him. I loved TJR for showing us characters who are flawed.

I loved Camila she was my absolute favorite character ever. The way she loved Billy even after all he did was a true act of love. I loved when she said “It didn’t seem right to me that his weakest self got to decide how my life was going to turn out, what my family was going to look like. I got to decide that. And what I wanted was a life—a family, a beautiful marriage, a home—with him. With the man I knew he truly was. And I was going to get it, hell or high water.” The way she wasn’t going to let anyone ruin her happiness or the way she wanted her life to go was beautiful to see.

I felt bad for Graham when he found out that Karen had terminated her pregnancy but at the same time, Karen had every right to do it. She wasn’t ready to be a mom and didn’t want to bring the baby into the world knowing she wasn’t ready to commit to the role and that’s admirable of her. Yes, it sucked he didn’t get to be a father with the woman he had loved but he needed to realize she did what she thought was best. I’m glad he got to be a dad in the end even if he didn’t get to do it with Karen. But can we talk about how selfish Billy was when Graham tried to talk to him and he blew him off to wallow in his self pity?! Like wtf Billy, Graham needed you for like 5 minutes and you couldn’t even give him the time of day when he’d do anything for you and has done anything for you?!

I would like to start by saying Taylor Jenkins Reid does it every single time. This book gutted me towards the end. The way I couldn’t stop crying especially towards the little plot twist oh my gosh. It immediately got 5 stars nothing less.

I didn’t care for Billy at first especially when he cheated on Camila so many times (still pisses me off and she deserved better). I do applaud and appreciate him working towards bettering himself for his family. Addiction is something I personally can relate to in this book with having family members go through both drug and alcohol abuse. So Billy’s character was sometimes hard to read due to my personal experience with people like him. But I’m so glad he realized the path he was on wasn’t going to get him anywhere and changed for his daughter. During the scene where he says his therapist told him ‘to start thinking of what I’d need to do to believe my daughter was proud of me’ then he goes “imagining myself as a man my daughter would feel lucky to have. I kept working, every day, to get closer to being that man” wrecked me to my core. It was so beautiful to see him transform into a loving husband and father. To keep denying himself from partying and to stay away from being tempted was admirable.

Daisy may have not been my favorite character but I loved her. I loved how she stood up for herself and didn’t let anyone tell her what to do. She struggled with addiction as well and I truly felt for her. She wanted someone to love her and show interest because her parents never did so she would do anything to make it happen and it was slowly ruining her. She wasn’t ever in the right mind due to being always high and that made me cry. She didn’t deserve to feel dependent on drugs or needing them to seem “fun” she would’ve been the life of the party without them if she had realized sooner. She had Simone but I feel like she didn’t truly feel like she had her at first until she got older and stopped the drugs.

Daisy was a girl who wanted to be loved and Billy was a man who wanted someone to be proud of him. I loved TJR for showing us characters who are flawed.

I loved Camila she was my absolute favorite character ever. The way she loved Billy even after all he did was a true act of love. I loved when she said “It didn’t seem right to me that his weakest self got to decide how my life was going to turn out, what my family was going to look like. I got to decide that. And what I wanted was a life—a family, a beautiful marriage, a home—with him. With the man I knew he truly was. And I was going to get it, hell or high water.” The way she wasn’t going to let anyone ruin her happiness or the way she wanted her life to go was beautiful to see.

I felt bad for Graham when he found out that Karen had terminated her pregnancy but at the same time, Karen had every right to do it. She wasn’t ready to be a mom and didn’t want to bring the baby into the world knowing she wasn’t ready to commit to the role and that’s admirable of her. Yes, it sucked he didn’t get to be a father with the woman he had loved but he needed to realize she did what she thought was best. I’m glad he got to be a dad in the end even if he didn’t get to do it with Karen. But can we talk about how selfish Billy was when Graham tried to talk to him and he blew him off to wallow in his self pity?! Like wtf Billy, Graham needed you for like 5 minutes and you couldn’t even give him the time of day when he’d do anything for you and has done anything for you?!

NATIONAL AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2019 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Esquire • Glamour • CBC • NPR • Marie Claire • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping • Parade • Shelf Awareness • BookRiot • E! News • Mental Floss • Paste "I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it. Daisy and the band captured my heart." —Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick) A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. Everyone knows Daisy Jone & The Six: The band's album Aurora came to define the rock 'n' roll era of the late seventies, and an entire generation of girls wanted to grow up to be Daisy. But no one knows the reason behind the group's split on the night of their final concert at Chicago Stadium on July 12, 1979 . . . 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.

Daisy Jones & The Six

I had fun reading this book. I love every characters , I love how Taylor build them. Reading this books feels like you're talking to your best friends. But as I read Daisy and Graham kinda annoyed me, but i still love them. 

Some scenes cringe me (kinda like 4/10 cringe level)

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.”

bought the book after reading T7HOEH and then i finally read it after knowing that the adaptation was gonna be released in just a few months. and well i loved this one, i am obsessed with the 70s era and the music, specially rock n' roll. the adaptation also wasn't disappointing at all to me, i think it's one of the best book to film we have, the casting was amazing, and some songs from the album is so good i can't stop listening (hi, the river). 

i guess all i just really want to say is i love the women of the tjr universe so much.

Holy shit was this good. I believe it was so much better than the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. This book was just so freaking amazing. It had great characters and just the right words to describe what they were feeling. The plot was just so amazing and I even felt like tearing up for a few of the scenes. You could feel the raw emotion of the writing and how each of the characters felt. I am just so in love with this book.

Kiran Aftab

3/11/23 review: I still don’t understand how it’s possible to write a book like this. I went through a rollercoaster of emotions as I was rereading this and watching the show (which has been created so beautifully). I remember reading this and always hesitating if I wanted to add it to my collection as I browsed around in a bookstore. I’m glad I bought it for my reread because the amount of tabs that are in this book is quite a lot. Brb going to try to emotionally recover as I listen to the album lol. THIS BOOK TO TV SHOW ADAPTATION IS SO GOOD. PLEASE CHECK IT OUT.

7/6/21 review: 
4.5/5 how do you even write something as detailed as this? taylor jenkins reid put in the work

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. “I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it. Daisy and the band captured my heart.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Washington Post • Esquire • Glamour • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping • Marie Claire • Parade • Paste • Shelf Awareness • BookRiot 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. Praise for Daisy Jones & The Six “Backstage intrigue is the engine of Daisy Jones & The Six. . . . [A] celebration of American mythmaking.”—Vogue “Each character is compelling but Daisy Jones is the star. She’s a blazing talent who is unapologetic in her sexuality and lives life on her own terms. . . . Like a poignant song with lyrics that speak to your soul, Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid will transport you to another place and time.”—Associated Press “Reid’s wit and gift for telling a perfectly paced story make this one of the most enjoyably readable books of the year.”—Nylon “Wildly delicious.” —Entertainment Weekly

Gelaine Trinidad

Zoe Robeson

4.5⭐️⭐️
Loved this. I listened to the audiobook so it felt so real. Like it actually happened. And ugh it was just so good and twisty and amazing 



Ok now spoilers so leave. Close your eyes 


At the end when billy is talking to Julia it sounds so real so in the moment and it sounds like he’s talking to you. And that’s beautiful. Also when you find out it’s Julia *chefs kiss*

radhika dhawan

reread in 3 hours bc the first few eps of the show got me emotional

Erin G.

So entertaining and vivid, turns out fictional rock band biography is the genre I never knew I needed. Can't wait for the miniseries.

Ryan Mateyk

I'm years overdue on reading this and I'm pretty sure the whole world has read this already but here are my thoughts. This was fun. I really liked the oral history aspect of it. It definitely upped the realism of the story and it was totally believable that I was reading about a real band from the 70s, especially when Jenkins Reid playfully had different characters remember the same scene differently. I thought the twist was totally unnecessary... (view spoiler)[ Imagine reliving all those details about your love life, sex life, drug life, with your daughter???? (hide spoiler)]. Overall it was a fun read, shout out to my book club for choosing it.

Ícaro Morbeck

Incrível a experiência de mergulhar no universo criado por Taylor Jenkins Reid e, ao menos por alguns minutos, pensar que estamos lendo o testemunho de pessoas reais, eventos reais. O que mais me admira neste livro são as interações entre os personagens. Os conflitos, as questões, os segredos e, em especial, os diálogos. Que transmitem uma veracidade tão autêntica que é possível enxergar estes personagens existindo e interagindo na vida real.

Nem todos os seus desenhos serão expostos em um museu. Nem todas as suas músicas serão lançadas. Com este livro, fico contente em ver o ímpeto criativo da banda depois da entrada da Daisy. É um lapso criativo total. Vemos eles se tornando melhores música atrás de música, tentativa atrás de tentativa. A força criativa que surge da união de Billy e Daisy é de inspirar qualquer um que trabalhe com criatividade. Se um artista não colocar sangue, suor e lágrimas em seu trabalho e tratar isso sempre como um hobby, nunca chegará a lugar nenhum, nunca fará nada que tem alguma importância.

A banda era alucinante nos palcos, e as músicas eram hipnóticas. Acho importante essa visão romantizada da ilusão de astros musicais quando refletida sobre o próprio processo criativo que, como brilhantemente elaborado pela escritora, é sobre sensações, não fatos. Não é sobre o que a banda seria na realidade, é sobre como ela é retratada nas páginas do livro. É sobre a mística que eles evocam. Como diz o próprio trecho do livro:

"A autoexpressão diz respeito ao sentimento de viver, e não se alguma emoção despertada em determinado momento era justa ou não".

Andrea Morales

Charlotte Helie 

Noha Zainal

Liked it but it feels like some parts are repetitive and unnecessary honestly

Naomi Waldorf

Disappointed. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen, but it never did. Didn't think TJR could dissapoint, but here we are.

Bria

when she sang the lyrics that he originally wrote, without the questions, i sobbed, literally.

Daisy Jones & the Six A Novel

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