Loved itI loved this book. So good. Exceptionally addicting fiction and I loved it.
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Daisy Jones & The Six (2019)
Others: Mostly positive 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780593598429
- Length:
- 384 pages
Genres: historical fiction, literary fiction
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Loved itThis historical book is Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I could not let a recommendations video go without talking about Taylor Jenkins Reid. This one is probably my favorite of hers.
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Not a fanI gave Daisy Jones in the Six, which is like everyone's other favorite, a two last year.
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Loved itI loved Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones at the Six.
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Loved itthis is an incredible novel about music set in the 1970s and follows the rise and fall of a band
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Loved itthis might also be top tier you know this reads like a Netflix documentary if you love fleetw Mac and smoking cigarettes this one is for you
Loved itI liked Daisy Jones in the six some of those
Loved itI just got a lot more out of it this time. I just enjoy reading about such flawed people and like how did these things happen and why do we still care about them despite all the terrible things they did?
Loved itDaisy Jones in the sixth it's a full cast it's just all encompassing it's like told through tape recorded interviews too so you're listening to people tell the story of Daisy Jones and again you're just in it
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Loved itI think I finally decided Daisy Jones on the six is my favorite Taylor Jenkins read book
Loved itholy [ __ ] i absolutely adored this book i read it right after reading evelyn hugo because i finished evelyn huckle and just couldn't get enough
Loved itYou all know how much I love Daisy Jones. Like that's just like a given with me. It's one of my favorite books of all time.
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Loved itI read this book twice when it came out maybe in three times did I read three times I don't know but I fell in love with the story every single time it's just so cool it's so good oh it's excellent
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Loved itthis book I loved because it's basically about a group of music rock music group and it's about the members but the thing that I loved about it is that it was written through interviews but you really got to know these characters
Mixedmy only issue with this book is that I think that there's a somewhat unnecessary twist near the end but I sobbed through the end of this I really enjoyed reading it and I gave it four and a half stars
Mixedwhich was not even quite as good as the seven husbands of Evelin Hugo so if I'm not including that one I definitely won't include this one
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Mixedthis one is just disappointed mostly because of all the hype a lot of people really love this and I will say the audio book was so good and I did cry at the end but the overall story just wasn't there for me
Loved itthis is easily the best audiobook West audio like experience in a book I've ever had ... I knew this was fiction but felt so much that it was true and the voice acting was amazing all of the characters felt really different
Loved itDaisy Jones is an incredible book I really enjoyed it when I read it I listened to it on audio and the cast is just awesome
Not a fanI did like this book because I gave it a three out of five stars. That means that I did enjoy the book, but it's because I the hype got to me and it just didn't live up to the hype of Evelyn Hugo.