Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Taylor Jenkins Reid (Author), Jennifer Beals (Narrator), Benjamin Bratt (Narrator),

A Reese's Book Club + Hello Sunshine on Audible Pick

"My March pick is here! It’s Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and it ROCKS. Literally. The story centers on the meteoric rise of a rock band in the '70s and its lead singers, Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne, whose connection is as electric as the music they make together. It’s sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll, people!! And the very best part?! Hello Sunshine is turning this into a TV show with Amazon Studios...so stay tuned for more updates!" (Reese Witherspoon)

A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late '60s, 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 ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s 20, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band 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 that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the '70s. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

Includes a PDF of song lyrics from the book.

Cast List: Daisy Jones, read by Jennifer Beals; Billy Dunne, read by Pablo Schreiber; Graham Dunne, read by Benjamin Bratt; Eddie Loving, read by Fred Berman; Warren Rhodes, read by Ari Fliakos; Karen Karen, read by Judy Greer; Camila Dunne, read by January LaVoy; Simone Jackson, read by Robinne Lee; Narrator/Author, read by Julia Whelan; Jim Blades, read by Jonathan Davis; Rod Reyes, read by Henry Leyva; Artie Snyder, read by Oliver Wyman; Elaine Chang, read by Nancy Wu; Freddie Mendoza, read by P.J. Ochlan; Nick Harris, read by Arthur Bishop; Jonah Berg, read by Holter Graham; Greg McGuinness, read by Brendan Wayne; Pete Loving, read by Pete Larkin; Wyatt Stone, read by Alex Jenkins Reid; Hank Allen, read by Robert Petkoff; Opal Cunningham, read by Sara Arrington

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Listening Length	9 hours and 3 minutes
Author	Taylor Jenkins Reid
Narrator	Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, Pablo Schreiber
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	March 05, 2019
Publisher	Random House Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07K8WGT23
Best Sellers Rank	#610 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #10 in Fiction Sagas #36 in Women's Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #51 in Family Saga Fiction

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A MUST READ

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2019

This book. Holy wow! How can one person top herself over and over again?!? I am blown away by Reid's ability to write such engaging, real-life, entertaining, phenomenal stories, one after the other! I loved her last one, and the one before it... And I am in love with this one too!

Let me start with how realistic this book felt. You will probably think I am dumb, but I honestly forgot this book is a fictional book about a fictional band. It is told so vividly and accurately that I went and googled Daisy & the Six. I kid you not. I am not ashamed to admit it. I totally did!

The format of this book is completely different that any other book. It did take me a minute or five to get used to it, but once I did, there was no stopping those pages from turning. I can't see this book told any other way. It was perfect for this story. And the why it was told this way does reveal itself towards the end, which made the story even more profound.

These characters. I was worried because of the way Reid was telling the story that I wouldn't be able to connect to any of them. I was wrong. I connected to these characters so deeply. I didn't want their story to end. I wanted everyone to have unicorns and rainbows by the end. I was totally invested in them throughout the entire book.

I want to address something about this book and early reviews I have seen. I don't do this often, hardly ever, but I feel the need to point some things out. I have seen some mark this book with triggers. Let me be clear, there aren't actual incidences where any form of a trigger warning would be necessary. This book is about a band in the 70s and 80s. If you know anything about that time, especially about bands in that era, it was sex, drugs, and rock n roll. This book depicts those things vividly, but not in detail. Does the book mention they do drugs? Yes. Does it mention promiscuous sex? Yes. Does it mention sex and females of questionable age? Yes. Notice I used the word mention. There aren't details. There is a depiction of what was going on in that time era. So, if you see reviews that make you leary, I would take them lightly.

I think this book will be a top book of the year for me. I know, it's early, but this book is THAT good. I can't give it enough praise. I truthfully cannot think of a negative thing to say about it.

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Tabitha Ryder

Cool idea, but...

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2019

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I liked the interview format, though I didn't expect it to work when I first started reading. The characters were very much stereotypes, however, and that made the book much less enjoyable, or rather much more forgettable, once I had finished. {MILD--OR MAYBE METAPHORIC--SPOILERS} There is a handsome guy, talented, a little tortured and brooding. Romance staple, in other words. There's the (pretty much impossibly) Good Wife. She's so good, it makes the back of my teeth ache. Good, good, good. A bit sanctimonious, as Good Wives are wont to be. We have no idea what she does while her guy is out wooing the world as a rock star. Except having babies, and keeping the home fires burning. Good Wife, as I said. And there is the star of the book, the Sexy Bad Girl. Also tortured, given to excess, too beautiful, too talented, too selfish. Do you want to know how this all ends? Ever read The Odyssey? Odysseus almost gets eaten by Sirens, but lashes himself to the mast of his ship so that he won't be lured to his death by their Deadly Song. Aeneas almost gives up his career as the Founder of Rome because Queen Dido was so hot and alluring. But in the end, he married a Good Wife, and left Dido by the side of the road--I mean the side of North Africa. My point is that this is an old, old story--wicked sexually excessive woman vs Good Wife, struggling for the soul of a decent but weak guy. Okay, Daisy isn't wicked, but she's drug addicted, self-involved, and mostly impossible to deal with.

All that said, it's a fun read. I have heard they may be making this into a movie, and I think that would be a shame. Movies in which actors try to act like rock stars always fall flat, to me, at least. Maybe I saw too many live shows in my youth. I think it's hard to make a "fake rock band" seem real--and that goes for the book a bit, too. I get the Fleetwood Mac analogy (Karen, the Christine MacVie analogue, was in fact my favorite character), but it was hard to imagine The Six having anything like the power and energy of that band at its peak. That said, one really did want to hear these songs while reading about them, to see Daisy and Billy on stage, so maybe with the right casting...

Anyway, the upshot for me was this was a good beach read with some unfortunate and tired assumptions about women. I'm not a radical feminist, so I can still enjoy the book. But I wish it hadn't been quite so reliant on mythic stereotypes. My advice: if that kind of story doesn't bug you, read it anyway. It's a nice afternoon's recreation.

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Phantom

not convinced

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 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 April 8, 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.

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Mad, Bad, Dangerous Dad

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

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 22, 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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Mildly diverting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 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*

29 people found this helpful

Helenbookworm

A Real Page Turner.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2019

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I had heard lots of buzz about this book, so I thought I would give it a go, even though it is not my usual type of thing. It tells the story of the meteoric rise of the band Daisy Jones and the Six told in a series of interview with the key members of the band and those around them. At first it is a little hard to keep track of who is who, but this soon eases as you get used to the format, each character has their own style and voice. Taylor Jenkins Reid manages to deliver the bigger picture through the details of the bands day to day life, and of course as the interviews are carried out nearly 40 years after the events not everyones version of the truth is the same. The tone is very authentic and I found myself completely hooked racing through the book, unable to put it down. Highly recommended.

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