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[quote=Anonymous]Finished Daisy Jones and the Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. 3/5; the premise was really interesting - a story about a really popular fictional 70s rock band, told in oral history format by way of interviews and snippets of dialogue between the characters. The lyrics to all of the band's "hits" are listed at the end. I enjoy reading rock oral histories, so this was right up my alley.

However, it was really difficult to get a sense of time and place with this book. Wouldn't a hyper-popular 70s band be coming into contact with Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, hippie culture, and all the other characters of late 60s-70s-era LA rock n' roll? There's so few references to the cultural atmosphere at the time, and that's a big shortcoming. The Six could've been a band on TikTok today, and I wouldn't have known the difference. None of the characters were really likable IMO, and there was also a lack of discussion about the musical elements of the band--that is, what exactly makes them so great and popular.

Now reading What We Kept to Ourselves, by Nancy Jooyoun Kim. [/quote]

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