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Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid - Very Good

I heard this mentioned in passing on Richard & Judy's lockdown book group show and thought it sounded interesting. Spooky coincidence that someone gave me a box of books a few days later and lo and behold....

What a great book. I mean we're not looking at classic literature here, but it was a great read. Set in 1970s USA, The Six are a rock band and Daisy Jones is an IT girl, total hippy and spaced out. Despite a dysfunctional family, everything comes easy to her including her talent. By chance their two worlds collide and the rest is history. Sex and drugs and rock n roll. Of course, there is the inevitable implosion and they disappear as quickly as they arrived.

It's written interview style (we find out who is interviewing towards the end) and there's the mismatch of memory as each band member and significant person in their lives and careers tells their version of events. The pages turn and you fly through.

Nice idea to have their 'classic album' lyrics at the end of the book... am I the only one that wishes I could go out and buy it?

Reminiscent of The Valley of the Dolls, my only other thought is that it reminded me of Fleetwood Mac and Rumours.... except they survived their classic album.... just.

Think I may have to search out The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo as I've seen it from a distance a few times now and suspect it might well be a similar page turner.

Posting out to Kinedi to cheer up lockdown!


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Thank you for sending it to me, looking forward to reading it soon

I am a music lover and a book lover so this novel about a ficticious rock'n'roll band in the late 70s in America had me totally hooked. The characters, ie band members were all so real and the intricate relationships and power battles among the band members really did ring true.
It painted such a vibrant picture of what the music scene was like in the late 70s....sex, drugs, rock'n'roll - I totally loved the book and then as a bonus(for me anyway) you get the songs and the lyrics at the very end !
I know a lot of my music friends will love this book too so am definitely going to pass it on

Going to Tanamo as part of the Wishlist tag game.
Happy reading

It arrived safely in Hinckley yesterday and has now joined the TBR mountain.

The music industry in the 70s is well depicted and the characters are all believable and despite the fact that she is a bolshy, self-centred character, I felt sorry for Daisy who grew up without love and spent most of her life looking for it in all the wrong places. However I didn't find the tale the gripping page-turner others have reported. I found it easy to put down and sometimes I skipped some of the characters views as I found some of them boring.

Mailed to another bookcrosser via the wishlist tag game.

And here it is... in record time!
Thank you very much for sending this WishList book to me, I enjoyed "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo", and based on the journals by previous readers I am also in for a treat with this novel.

Reserved for Florence71, for the EU WishList Game; I will read it first.

Currently reading it. :)

Well, I find it hard not to compare it with "Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo", as I really loved this book. Maybe I am a greater fan of 50's movies than of 70's rock.
Having said this, I liked the interview mode throughout, because it gives us the chance to see how things are perceived (and reported) differently by different characters.
I could not identify with any of them, as they all seem quite self-centered: maybe Camilla is the most down-to-earth, focused on her role as a mother and determined not to lose her husband.
I agree with Casandra2020: it also reminded me of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, maybe because it is my preferred record from that era... And I also agree with Tanamo, it is not a gripping page-turner, although it gains some pace as it nears the end.

Some quotes that resonated with me:
"(...) on matter both big and small, some times accounts of the same event differ. The truth often lies, unclaimed, in the middle." (An explanation by the author about the style in which the novel is written.)
"Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself. And Billy saw me the way I wanted to be seen. There is nothing more powerful than that. I really believe that. Everybody wants somebody to hold up the right mirror." (Reflections by Daisy; I agree.)
"We were two halves. We were the same. In that way that you're only the same with a few other people. In that way that you don't even feel like you have to say your own thoughts because you know the other person is already thinking them." (Billy on Daisy. Beautiful.)

Thank you so much for sharing this book with me.
I know that there is a film based on it, but I didn't want to watch it before reading the novel, as it usually spoils it for me (I like to "picture mentally" my own characters).
Soon to continue it's travels. :)

Sent today to Florence71; I tagged her with it. Enjoy! :)

Thanks Bookworm-lady for the book !
Proposed to another french bcer as I have a double copy.

Happy summer reading Zabriina !

Bien reçu, merci pour l'envoi Florence71 :)
I'll take the book with me on my summer holidays ⛱️

A pleasant summer, it's a fun dig into the world of 70's music, it's got an upbeat rythm and sometimes I laughed out loud. Yet I think I might forget it rather fast...
I'll be sending it to Lilo37fee soon, as it was on her wishlist.

Sent it to Lilo37fee this morning, it will travel from Hamburg to Bavaria 📮

Thank you so much! I am really looking forward to read this book!