Daisy Jones & the Six A Novel
Reviews
camila dunne the woman that you are
OMG I LOVED THIS it was deep but also interesting and i love the 60s and 70s so much
I don’t think I’ve read a book written in this format before. It was amazing!
spoiler alert Good and quick read. The ending is a real twist and has you questioning if everything that was said in the book was the entire truth. With character like Warren, Eddie, and Pete, we can trust their words were what had actually happened. I believe that Billy and Daisy did more that just kiss throat one time. I like that not only just it talk about the glamorous rock-n-roll life, but also the rough and nasty stuff. This book always had me question the what if? And I like it for that. Best character… Warren. Good book that has you think of the depth and truth of what is said. Also the style is very new and different. Very intelligent. All in all 9/10.
the interviewer reveal landed as corny for me. i think this book was perfect for adaption. it needs the music for real.
A good book and all the characters have their own beautiful voices and opinions. I found it good to read because it's also the same author and it's beautifully written though I have some issues on the ending.
To the ones we were never meant to have. Such a unique story, layered drama, finding yourself, prioritizing others, and to the things that weren’t meant to be.
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.
What if I didn’t like this…
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!
Wow, po prostu wow
** 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 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.
I would recommend the audiobook more ~
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*
reread in 3 hours bc the first few eps of the show got me emotional
So entertaining and vivid, turns out fictional rock band biography is the genre I never knew I needed. Can't wait for the miniseries.
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.
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".
Highlights
I fell in love with the wrong guy who was exactly the right guy.
“You’re all sorts of things you don’t even know yet. “
“Women always seem to get back up. Women are always still standing .”
“Someone who insists on the perfect conditions to make art isn’t an artist they’re an asshole.”
“I used to care when men called me difficult.. I really did.. then I stopped. This way is better. “
“I was just supposed to be the inspiration for some man great ideas. Well fuck that “
“Men will take what they want and feel no debt.”
I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.
You know, things like that, that kind of connection with a person, it is sort of like playing with fire. Because it feels good, to be understood. You feel in sync with a person, you feel like you’re on a level that no one else is.
“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
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.
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.
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.
Daisy
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.
Daisy
History is what you did, not what you almost did, not what you thought about doing. And I was proud of what I did.
Billy
That's how it was back then. I was just supposed to be the inspiration for some man's great idea.
Well, fuck that.
That's why I started writing my own stuff.
Daisy
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.
Daisy
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.
Daisy
If the rest of the world was silver, Daisy was gold.
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.