Having gained the skill of DNFing I now seem unable to control myself. Anyway this book was ... you guessed it! Boring. At first I really found myself enjoying the setting and hearing about the same places I have visited and explored in the Bay Area. I thought I would learn to love the characters, get over their obnoxious song discussions, and instead I just kept disliking them more and more. There was a weird scene where the one notable (?) person of color (I think they were half Mexican and half white) makes a comment about privilege and that even if white people did invent country music (they did not) it would have been poor white people not annoying teenagers in college. I say weird because (I know this is the 2000s) she's dismissed basically for being middle class herself ... huh?? 

I didn't know people were comparing this to Daisy Jones and the Six (which I admittedly rated highly at first but looking back I'd rate much lower today) and I think had I known that I would have hesitated in picking this up. I know there's a movie coming out staring Saoirse Ronan sometime in the future, so I might end up picking this up again if I like the movie. Time will tell.