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A review by coolcatalycat
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
5.0
RR Feb 2023:
I think i'm actually an insane person for putting myself through the pain of this book again. i felt compelled to read it one more time, the way i imagined it, without the live adaptation getting in the way. one more time reading it as aly's version. that sounds absolutely super dramatic but i dont know, i get sentimental with my books. and this one is very special to me, i can't even explain why. and secretly, my "i want to be mysterious and different" personality hates that one of my top books is such a popular one.
I hate this fucking book but I love it. I hate it because the characters are all a mess (except for camila I love her, shes way too good for anybody in here), but at the same time, i cant help but love them. tjr just has a way of making readers actually like unlikeable characters. they're deeply flawed but they recognize that and try to work on it and it's very admirable and you can't help but want to jump in the book and help them or hug them.
this reread consisted of me annotating the shit out of my copy (to the point where its become unreadable) being annoyed with eddie, calling the characters assholes, praising camila and hurting much more than i thought i would considering I knew what was coming. its ironic how my highlighters were very pigmented throughout the whole read but towards the end they were dying out, when everything was going to shit.
anyways, i'm really glad I did this. i will cherish my annotated copy of this and someday will find it and look back to this time of my life, what I felt and how i related to the characters at the time. it's the little things like this that make me happy.
now i'm going to read what I journaled the first time I read this which is actually very exciting
FTR May 2021:
WOW. this book is seriously a masterpiece. i’m ngl, i took a little break from it about 20% in cause i wasn’t in the mood for this style and i really wanted to enjoy it so i started something else for a day and came back to it the next and i seriously couldn’t put it down. it was written so well that i felt like they were a real band and i wanted to hear the music.
music has always been my life, loved everything about it. finding new songs, playing it, singing it, making new playlists. so having a book talking about a band in the 70s??! it’s perfect for me. loved every second of it, the characters were written so well and the story was heartbreaking (was trying not to sob reading it in the car with my whole family) IM EMOTIONAL LMAO
anyways, i could talk about how much i enjoyed this for hours but this would be too long so i’m stopping for now. it’s always the books you think you won’t enjoy that end up being the best ones, i encourage you to pick out a book that you’ve been eyeing but aren’t sure of and READ IT
I think i'm actually an insane person for putting myself through the pain of this book again. i felt compelled to read it one more time, the way i imagined it, without the live adaptation getting in the way. one more time reading it as aly's version. that sounds absolutely super dramatic but i dont know, i get sentimental with my books. and this one is very special to me, i can't even explain why. and secretly, my "i want to be mysterious and different" personality hates that one of my top books is such a popular one.
I hate this fucking book but I love it. I hate it because the characters are all a mess (except for camila I love her, shes way too good for anybody in here), but at the same time, i cant help but love them. tjr just has a way of making readers actually like unlikeable characters. they're deeply flawed but they recognize that and try to work on it and it's very admirable and you can't help but want to jump in the book and help them or hug them.
this reread consisted of me annotating the shit out of my copy (to the point where its become unreadable) being annoyed with eddie, calling the characters assholes, praising camila and hurting much more than i thought i would considering I knew what was coming. its ironic how my highlighters were very pigmented throughout the whole read but towards the end they were dying out, when everything was going to shit.
anyways, i'm really glad I did this. i will cherish my annotated copy of this and someday will find it and look back to this time of my life, what I felt and how i related to the characters at the time. it's the little things like this that make me happy.
now i'm going to read what I journaled the first time I read this which is actually very exciting
FTR May 2021:
WOW. this book is seriously a masterpiece. i’m ngl, i took a little break from it about 20% in cause i wasn’t in the mood for this style and i really wanted to enjoy it so i started something else for a day and came back to it the next and i seriously couldn’t put it down. it was written so well that i felt like they were a real band and i wanted to hear the music.
music has always been my life, loved everything about it. finding new songs, playing it, singing it, making new playlists. so having a book talking about a band in the 70s??! it’s perfect for me. loved every second of it, the characters were written so well and the story was heartbreaking (was trying not to sob reading it in the car with my whole family) IM EMOTIONAL LMAO
anyways, i could talk about how much i enjoyed this for hours but this would be too long so i’m stopping for now. it’s always the books you think you won’t enjoy that end up being the best ones, i encourage you to pick out a book that you’ve been eyeing but aren’t sure of and READ IT