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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 sold out arenas from coast to coast.

This is the story of their incredible rise: the desire, the rivalry – and the music.

Then, on 12 July 1979, Daisy Jones and the Six split up.

Nobody knew why. Until now....

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9 hours and 3 minutes
Author

Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Sara Arrington, see all
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5 March 2019
Language

English
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Random House Audiobooks
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B07GWYQ96K
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	9 hours and 3 minutes
Author	Taylor Jenkins Reid
Narrator	Sara Arrington, Jennifer Beals, Arthur Bishop, Fred Berman, Benjamin Bratt, Jonathan Davis, Ari Fliakos, Holter Graham, Judy Greer, January Lavoy, Robinne Lee, Peter Larkin, Henry Leyva, P.J. Ochlan, Robert Petkoff
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Audible.com.au Release Date	05 March 2019
Publisher	Random House Audiobooks
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07GWYQ96K
Best Sellers Rank	116 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 4 in Contemporary Romance (Audible Books & Originals) 53 in Contemporary Romance (Books)

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5 stars - AMAZING audible version

Reviewed in Australia on 23 March 2019

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Daisy Jones and The Six - first up I have to say do yourself a favour - listen to the Audible version, it is absolutely AMAZING to listen to this story. With 15 narrators telling the story (yep - I went back to Amazon to look it up and counted once I started listening, as there were so many different voices!), it was mesmerising to listen to - and the narrators all do such a fantastic job with their characters.

The way the author wrote the story made it all the more fascinating to listen to, it really felt like I was listening to a documentary rather than a fictional story. I really enjoyed the way the story was told from the beginning. Alternating between the background story of The Six and their rise to fame, and the background of Daisy Jones, until they meet and then their story merges into the one. The story touches on many things you would expect from a famous rock band from the 70's, with the members trying to deal with their fame, addictions, love, loss, touring, being in each other's faces constantly - I was halfway through the Audible version when I also ordered myself a paperback copy, I just knew it was going to be amazing all the way through to the end, and I needed it for my bookshelf.

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Brilliant creation of the 70’s rock vibe

Reviewed in Australia on 10 April 2019

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Taylor Jenkins Reid wrote this novel in a totally innovative way. It’s presented as spliced together sections of in depth interviews with all concerned as they look back down the years: the artists, the manager, the spouse, the friend. The beauty of it is that we rapidly get different points of view - and versions of the truth - as the story unfolds. It’s loosely based on a Fleetwood Mac vibe: Daisy is the gutsy, beautiful wild child singer/songwriter with addiction problems; Billy the equally talented leader of The Six who’s married to firecracker Camila. Billy goes crazy with booze and drugs as the band is making it big, but gets straight for Camila and their child (later, children).

There are tensions. Billy’s brother Graham falls for keyboard player Karen, who loves him but wants to be a successful artist first and foremost. As she says, marriages are a little more equitable these days but back then, if a woman married and had kids, she could pretty well kiss a career goodbye. Eddie is the one who most resents Billy’s dominance in the group. There are always problems when walking the line between needing strong leadership and direction vs democratically allowing everyone a say and the chance to shine individually. Eddie’s brother Pete has a girlfriend back east. Drummer Warren is the most laidback. The biggest tension though is that after initial hostility, Daisy and Billy share an intense love that can never be acted on or even expressed, except it is. It comes out in their co-written songs and, having hit the heights of success, the band implodes after a Chicago show when the pain of longing, and singing about it every night, is too much to bear. Billy nearly falls off the wagon, struggling with his love for two very different women. Daisy has at last found someone who totally gets her but has to walk away - to rehab. Graham and Karen have their own issues, and Graham needs his brother’s attention at a time when Billy can’t give it. Camila understands everything but stands firm. Eddie is still pissed off. Pete and Warren are philosophical about the ride being over.

Not surprisingly, the book has been picked up and will be made into a 13 part TV series. It’ll be interesting to see how the script writers will deal with the disparate sets of recollections. The producers have a head start on one thing: Reid has penned lyrics for the songs mentioned in the book, which shed a little further light on the state of Daisy’s and Billy’s state of mind/heart. A unique book that really captures the soul of the 70’s rock scene. 4-5 stars.

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roxie

Exceeded my expectations!

Reviewed in Australia on 8 August 2021

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The book cover I received was different to the one I ordered but I honestly didn’t care- and I actually like the cover I received better now. I’ve heard good things about Taylor Jenkins Reid so I thought, why not give it a read? According to reviews on google, it was 3/5 at best so I had low expectations going into this. Not going to lie, for the first 30 pages I thought I was reading an insanely interesting biography of Daisy Jones. I was ready to google her. I was disappointed of course to find that the characters were fiction and the 70s rock band never existed. (I wish knew what the Aurora album sounded like… and Honeycomb) Regardless, the interview style writing was really engaging for me to read! There was some really good lines in their and I felt really invested in the characters. Interesting twist at the end too! I believe this book doesn’t deserve a rating below 4/5. Can’t wait to read the Seven Lives of Evelyn Hugo now!

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Kylie Di Mauro

Different

Reviewed in Australia on 26 September 2019

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I’d give this a 3.5 stars. I enjoyed the fact that this book was a novel, written in an interview style. It was cleverly written and held my attention right to the end. The story line was strong, a love story with a difference. The end however really was safe, which I must say was nice but pretty unbelievable in that it is what the readers wanted to hear.

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A book about much more than love

Reviewed in Australia on 27 October 2020

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While this book wasn't really a page turner, the well-fleshed out and heartbreakingly real vulnerabilities of the characters kept me hooked till the end. I didn't think I would like how this book was written (in transcript style) but it worked really well to tell the story- it felt more intimate than if it was told normally. I loved that this book was about all the different kinds of love and I liked that this was a more mature love story than the ones you see normally. I do love the stories that TJR writes; I couldn't put down The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and with this book I am truly invested and curious for what she writes. I can't wait to read her new book.

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Sasha

Amazingly written but plot momentum was lacking

Reviewed in Australia on 24 January 2022

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I love this author, and I loved the first half of this book. It felt like it had momentum and potential. Then I felt the momentum died and I found the pace didn’t pick up again. But in saying that, I thought the whole book was so cleverly written. It made you feel like the characters were real, and that you were reading a real interview script, whilst also losing that script-feeling enough to make the story come to life as the book progresses.
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Phantom

not convinced

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2019

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I really struggled with the format of this novel, I found it hard to keep tack of the different characters due to the way it was presented in the form of interviews., In fact I nearly gave up as I did not find the story line at all involving and did not like or warm to the personalities, I pre-ordered this as the premise sounded interesting but had to almost make myself continue reading as I do not like giving up on a book, mainly out of respect of the effort it must take to write one. I was intrigued by the premise that although people share events, memories will always be informed by the perspective and personality of whoever is re-counting the tale .,

It did pick up pace towards the end, but I felt that nothing really happened other than the almost non-verbalised relationships between Daisy and the guy whose name I am struggling to recall

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A pleasing read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2019

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This is a unique book. It is not terribly deep but the story pulls you in and really makes you care.

Firstly the writing is strange. It reads more as a script than a regular book. I can see why Amazon have snapped this up for a TV series as the Book is ready to go. The prose is set as a series of interviews years after the events retelling the story of the band. The interviews are stitched together to create the story arc. To begin with this is a jarring negative but actually makes the book incredibly easy to read (I flew through it).

Another negative aspect is the characters are a little cliché. cool diva star, controlling / flawed band leader, aloof bassist, wacky drummer, difficult lead guitarist, etc etc. If I would have predicted the characters I would have got most spot on. However, the characterization is incredible. These characters leap out the page fully formed and you feel you know them, half way through you are invested in most of them.

I am a fan of music and the era, so maybe I was an easy sell. But I found the narrative thrilling. The description of the music writing, the songs and the performances were great. The scene where the album cover is photographed was almost visual.

Look don't pick this up and expect anything deep, meaningful or high-brow. But it is one of the best quick diversion reads I have ever read. My only regret is that there was not an accompanying soundtrack, now THAT would have been great.

51 people found this helpful

Mildly diverting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 March 2019

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I like a good rock biography (fictional or real), but this, sadly, isn’t one. It’s not bad, but it definitely isn’t good, being unevenly paced, unconvincing, and pretty 2d. If you want a much better fictional rock biog, try Iain Banks’ Espedair Street. Now that’s *superb*

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Ryder

Nothing more than a lame romance from a teen magazine

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 April 2020

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This tedious, uninspired novel manages to take sex, drugs and rock n roll and somehow make them deepply uninteresting.

There isn't a plot. Take four or five seconds to imagine a pretty girl joining a band and there, you've already imagined all the nuances that this book has to offer.

There isn't any interesting writing to speak of - in fact, the interview style becomes grinding after a few pages, let alone several hundred pages of scarcely-drawn characters who all have the same voice.

The most telling detail of the quality within these pages is the glowing review on the back cover from noted literary critic and public intellectual Edith Bowman, who notes, "I thought all the characters were real." That is presumably to be taken literally and says all that we need to know about the target audience, given that poor old Edith once struggled to understand the complex metaphor at the heart of Rhianna's "Umbrella", moaning, "Why would she offer someone to stand under her umbrella? It just doesn't make sense!"

This isn't literature, it isn't fun and it isn't entertaining.

24 people found this helpful

Mad, Bad, Dangerous Dad

Fiction but you’ll still google the band at the end anyway!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 March 2019

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A unique revisiting of the rise and fall of a fictional 70s rock band. Seems simple and ordinary at a glance but is far from it...Part Netflix documentary, part film Almost Famous and yet something completely its own.

Written in an interview style and being about a successful band could make it hard to engage with emotionally, but wow does it do just that. You very quickly forget the style and fall for the various characters, and for me not the main ones necessarily in Daisy and Billy, I really liked some of the other band members and hangers on. You get sucked into all of their stories, how they viewed the same events very differently and rush through the pages as you desperately want to find out what happened.

Easily one of my favourite books of recent times that I’m recommending to all my friends. The only annoying thing is that I can’t now listen to their music or go to a concert...I felt the band was so real by the end that I almost googled them anyway!

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