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botoxedbunnyboiler t1_ja87m0v wrote

I am with you. I had a hard time putting the book down. It was an easy read. But you get this feeling that Evelyn’s character was too over the top to be relatable or even real. As much as I liked the book, it was more of a guilty pleasure read.

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ilovecheese2188 t1_ja98ryu wrote

This is all of her books honestly. They’re so engrossing but you can’t think too hard about if they make sense or are realistic. Just binge it and feel the things and move on.

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Bikinigirlout t1_jab8cwh wrote

I actually like that about Daisy Jones and the Six. Both Daisy and Billy are terrible people who shouldn’t be together yet I still found myself rooting for them. Even though Camilla totally deserved better and Camilla was such a great person that I felt like an asshole for rooting for Billy and Daisy

Another thing I love about Daisy Jones is that because of >!who the narrator was, it’s like of course no one is gonna tell them the full details and they’re gonna be biased towards certain people!<

I love the complexity of it all

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Level-Somewhere-8961 OP t1_ja8fpz3 wrote

Ya for sure, I think the fact it was not realistic (at least in my world lol) made it a page turner. I was dying to know how things would end up with different characters.

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tsh87 t1_ja9ye9f wrote

I mean we say that Evelyn is unrealistic but... Elizabeth Taylor is real. So is Marilyn Monroe. Britney Spears. Even Kim Kardashian.

If we were to fictionalize any of those lives it would feel insane.

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DrunkOnRedCordial t1_jacgijp wrote

There were a lot of those "purple" marriages in Hollywood around that era. Rock Hudson was marched off to get married before a newspaper could do an expose on his love life. And even someone like Cary Grant apparently lived long term with another man - but I have no idea how he fitted that in seeing he was married so often.

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