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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

July 1, 2020 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

What a blast from the past. Spoiler alert, Daisy Jones and I am the same age, and living the 1970’s LA life whilst in your twenties was some good times. The music was all around, in an LA-centric way I have not seen since. (Still here.) The clubs were rocking, but I did not have that kind of money, although the boyfriend and I managed to swing tickets once for the Universal Amphitheater and Linda Ronstadt in all her boy scout uniform glory (damn, […]

Sing to me, Daisy Jones and the Six, and never stop

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

April 27, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Daisy Jones is a bored, rich girl who is too pretty and too talented for her own good. Billy Dunne is a natural talent who starts a band with his brother called The Six. Individual they both do well for themselves, but together as the group Daisy Jones and the Six, they are electric. Naturally, as a rock n roll band in the 70s, the group members of this band struggle with ego, alcohol, drugs, promiscuity, and complex relationship within and outside of the band. […]

Great writing makes this live up to the hype

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

April 9, 2020 by pixifer 2 Comments

Daisy Jones and the Six is the oral history of a 70s rock supergroup. The band starts as two brothers, Billy and Graham, and their friends in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As the band sees success, they move to California. They record a single with Daisy Jones, an up-and-coming singer and local “it” girl. Daisy and Billy instantly hate one another because they see the parts of themselves they hate in each other. The book chronicles their rise to stardom. Billy and Daisy are the stars of […]

I need this band to be real now

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

March 20, 2020 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

Throughout my youth I was addicted to rock biographies. Loving those covering bands from the 60s and early 70s in particular, Daisy Jones and The Six could easily have been one of those I read all the way back then. Y’know, if they weren’t fictional. It’s a testament to how well this is written that at some point, I definitely crossed over into weird “they’re real and I must hear their music” territory. Daisy Jones and The Six charts the meteoric rise of the band […]

Daisy Jones screams “Not Like Other Girls” from the bottom of Cliche Canyon

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

March 12, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 8 Comments

I have read this before. I have seen it. I have heard it. This book is like a transcription of a Behind the Music episode. Everyone waxing rhapsodic over the Sunset Strip in the 70s. Ugh. There is nothing unique or remarkable about this tale. No grand revelations, nothing that overcomes tropes, just archetypes smashing into archetypes while being saved-by-or-slaves-to tHe MuSic. I truly do not understand the rapturous reviews around Daisy Jones and The Six. There is nothing special about this story, nor is there anything special […]

Rock On

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

February 11, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

Even as I was prepped for it by all the hype, I didn’t expect to like Daisy Jones & The Six as much as I did. I devoured it in a day, feeling angry whenever I had to put it down. It starts off good, gets better, and brushes greatness near the end. The whole concept of a fictional musical biography would normally not hold much appeal. I find most musicians vain in the same way I suppose many non-sports fans find athletes vain. But everyone and […]

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