Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Great writing makes this live up to the hype

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

Hold me closer Tiny Dancer

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel chronicles the rise of a ‘70s rock band, including all the things you’d expect- drugs, booze, sex, groupies, band in-fighting, etc.  Jenkins Reid starts by tracing the rise of the two band components as their own entities- Daisy Jones, an irresistible pop ingénue with a drug habit and an urge to write her own songs; and The Six, a rust-belt rock band helmed by a charismatic leading man trying to hold his life and his band together amidst his own spiraling […]

Please get the audiobook version

Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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I know I’m late to the game on this one and there’s nothing left to add, reviewwise. The book is entertaining and overflowing with life. It’s gloriously human. It’s going to be a 12-part limited series in the next year or so. We all know and we all love it. Nonetheless, I feel the need to hold up my lighter as Graham Dunne strums the intro chords and Daisy saunters up the mic and Karen Karen hits those atmospheric keys. Also, Warren is there! Oh, […]



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