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Exit Here.

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Enter apathy.

Travis is back from college for the summer, and he's just starting to settle in to the usual pattern at home: drinking, drugging, watching porn, and hooking up.

But Travis isn't settling in like he used to; something isn't right. Maybe it's that deadly debauch in Hawaii, the memories of which Travis can't quite shake. Maybe it's Laura, Travis's ex, who reap

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Published May 22nd 2007 by Simon Pulse (first published May 1st 2007)

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Oct 02, 2011 Meryl rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: NO ONE. NO ONE!!!

Oh mah odd, I cannot begin to explain how terrible and disappointing this book was. I thought it would be one of those angsty unforgettable books that you throw at all your friends because it changed your life. WRONG.

This book was unbelievably redundant: trashy, horny white kids who do coke ALL THE TIME and listen to crappy music. That's all this book was about. Every other page was "snorting rails" or having sex. There is a slut and every single character must be good-looking and the protagonis...more

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Dec 13, 2012 Jason Kurtz rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Sex, drugs, and rock and roll—a few of the cornerstones of realistic young adult literature. Now throw in a good portion of porn, rape, murder and a cast of callus, delinquent (even criminal) characters that have no respect for themselves or others—yes, we are still talking about young adult fiction. All of these, and more, can be found in "Exit Here" (2007), by Jason Myers.

So what could possibly be the value of having a book like Exit Here on the young adult classroom or library shelf?

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Mar 03, 2008 Mayra rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Mature teens.

Travis goes to college and has a chance in life but after a trip to Hawaii he's life changes.He drops out of college and returns home.He does drugs and parties but after a while , he discovers that his ex is dating somebody else and that life is not like what it used to be.His friends have changed for the worst.Cliff is into some dirty business and his life is at risk.Chris's girlfriend is unfaithful to him but yet Travis can't say nothing.Travis's sister is doing drugs and partying with people...more

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May 09, 2013 Morgan rated it 1 of 5 stars

I picked this up from the library's new release shelf (something like five years ago, mind you) and was already home when I realized it was YA fiction. It wasn't because I saw the genre printed on the back. No, this book reads like it was written by a relatively vapid individual who knows little to nothing about building a solid story. I don't think it's necessary for books intended for tweens to be poorly written, devoid of substance, or lacking emotional maturity. It's basically doing a disser...more

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Jan 06, 2013 Cat rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Exit Here by Jason Myers

Have you ever evaded an obstacle, running away from an unresolved problem? Later to find out you were only trying to escape from yourself? Travis Wayne wants to find the exit but is running away always the answer, or will you only be lead to another entrance?

Travis comes from a rich family, his dad practically owning more than 75% of the town. Because of his father he can get any job he wants and go to college for free. He can get away with almost anything! But som...more Cat T.
Exit Here by Jason Myers

Have you ever evaded an obstacle, running away from an unresolved problem? Later to find out you were only trying to escape from yourself? Travis Wayne wants to find the exit but is running away always the answer, or will you only be lead to another entrance?

Travis comes from a rich family, his dad practically owning more than 75% of the town. Because of his father he can get any job he wants and go to college for free. He can get away with almost anything! But sometimes wealth and power can’t buy happiness. Travis’s life consists of drinking, drugging and hooking up to escape from himself. Even with the type of power he has he still is unhappy with life. After disappearing from the scene, Travis is home from Hawaii, where he left everyone behind with no explanation, and most importantly… where something changed.

Exit Here is a very realistic fiction and puts you in the life of someone else. Although I and most people can’t relate to the drug and drinking setting there is a very important factor of life that we all can relate to, the truth. Page, 443 Travis says “I finally woke up to the whole realization that life really happens and there is always a consequence for your actions- I lost everything, in the some sense, but in a weird kind of great way, if you flip it all around, I may have gained the most important thing of all: the truth. I can live with that”.
That is one of my most favorite lines from the book because he finally got his foreclosure on everything about himself and things that have happened that he had been running away from all along.

Some of the things that people commit in this book are very scary actions but sadly there are people out there that do these bad things and I am glad he added it into the book. Pay close attention to how the book got its title because I am just now realizing while writing this review! At times the read can be slow and you will want to skip pages to get the point but towards the last page you will be glad you read every page. I really liked this book because it taught me that there is going to a consequence for your actions, and that I can’t always run away from myself because I only end up at other entrances and then things just get worse. You can’t escape from problems, or turn your back from them. You must face the truth, and learn from it.

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Mar 03, 2012 Claire Capul rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Wanting to escape life. Wanting to find the exit but is ended up only at another entrance. Travis Wayne in this story faced challenges in life by running away from them, from going to the exit all at once.

Exit Here shows how life can really just happen and could really just fuck yourself up. It shows that everything changes and that even your most loved person tells you that they won't change, never listen for nothing is permanent.

There is really a instant exit on problems. You may disregard it...more

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Oct 23, 2011 Mallory Mcandrew rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Everyone

Recommended to Mallory by: Maggy Greenway

Exit Here by Jason Myers is a very good book. His imagination for this book is wonderful. The drugs, smoking, and alcohol are a daily routine for main character Travis Wayne. After high school in California, Travis went to college in Arizona but dropped out without telling his parents and took off for Hawaii. He did some bad things while he was there for about a week. When he came home, he thought things were going to be how they were before he left for college. Unfortunately things cannot be pi...more

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Oct 04, 2011 Anastasia Hudson rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People who like crappy books

This Book is about this poor little rich white boy who wants to make a "Change" in his life and start over. So how does he show the reader this, you ask? He continues to party and drink and do drugs and have sex. Yep all the good stuff. And this goes on forever. Mind you, he's in college a time in your life where these things should be understandable and okay to do. Anyway this book is fulled with card board cut outs of what Jason Myers calls characters and scenes in the book that are there to "...more

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Aug 21, 2011 Alhamm11 rated it 5 of 5 stars

I have just joined this site, and I figured this book should be the first book I put a review in for.
Jason Myers is such a powerful writer! His material he gives is so raw and there's no skirting around the powerful and intense words that he puts on the page. "Exit Here" is one of my ultimate favorite books and everything written in it is so in your face and it hits you like a brick wall.
the character is simply mysterious in his own way, and he doesn't always do the right things but he has the...more

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May 25, 2011 Karina added it

The reason that I kept reading the book was because, to me it was very interseting and something that caught my attention because some of the things it talks about in the book also can relate to my own life and the things that I have seen go on around my friends and at parties. My favorite character had to be the main character, Travis. The reason that he was my favorite character probably was because out of everybody in the book he seemed to have things more in control in his life then most of...more

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May 16, 2011 Lex rated it 4 of 5 stars

We follow the main character, Travis, through his post-adventure life. He used to be a great kid, good potential, handsome, but he got sucked up into the drug scene and now spends his time getting high, sleeping, having sex, and watching porn. When he left home unexpectedly and didn't make any effort to keep in contact with his friends or family, he slowly and painfully drifted away from his familiar life, and when he comes back he has to deal with his demons. His girlfriend wants nothing to do...more

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Mar 29, 2011 Marisa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Imagine you are returning to your hometown and nothing is the same. Your future seems bleek, your boyfriend or girlfriend of 5 years now has a new relationship. All of your best friends have gone off the deep end, including yourself. Drugs are the only thing there is to turn to. Your parents don't trust nor like you and they keep pushing for things that just aren't possible. Maybe this doesn't seem too bad just yet, but it gets a whole lot worse.
In the novel Exit Here by Jason Meyers, Travis,...more Imagine you are returning to your hometown and nothing is the same. Your future seems bleek, your boyfriend or girlfriend of 5 years now has a new relationship. All of your best friends have gone off the deep end, including yourself. Drugs are the only thing there is to turn to. Your parents don't trust nor like you and they keep pushing for things that just aren't possible. Maybe this doesn't seem too bad just yet, but it gets a whole lot worse.
In the novel Exit Here by Jason Meyers, Travis, a college drop-out, encounters all of these issues. He's fighting his old self while trying to become a new person. The drugs, the girls, the life he lived before he went away, all seem so perfect back than. But now, he realizes that his life is in ruins.
Travis' ex-girlfriend Laura doesn't seem to be in love with Travis anymore and wants nothing to do with him, when she is all he wants. He wants to know that there is something there, something in his life to live for. Also, Travis used to be the most popular and best looking guy in town, but not anymre everyone has lost all respect for him and doesn't see him to be all that great anymore. Travis' best firend, Cliff, used to come to him for everything. But towards the ending of the book travis gives up on Cliff and leaves him to fend for himself, which leads Cliff down a disaterous road. Ever since his trip to Hawaii everything has changed for Travis. He has no idea what he is in for and neither does the reader. As Travis tries to fix up his life, his father is there trying to push travis over his limits and is not supporting nor listening to what Travis has to say. With no where to turn to Travis makes many rediculous and life-changing decisions. Many secrets will be revealed in what seems to be Travis' perfect hometown.
I would reccomend this book for anyone and everyone! It is such an action-filled and touching story that almost anyone could connect and feels as if they are really in Travis' shoes. Meyers does an excellent job writing and illistrating how messy life can truely get. It makes you realizes how great life really is. Also if I had to pick one group in specific that this book could touch and connect to, I woulld pick teenagers. This is a great book.

All Travis wants to do is peice his life back together,but for him it seems as if none of the peices fit. Has everything changed, or has he? (less)

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Jan 08, 2011 Samantha Wise rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Specific events & Plot : There is a nineteen year old boy named Travis Wayne who flunks out of college and goes back home. When Travis was thirteen him and his buddies started selling and smoking weed. Now one of his best friends Kyle is a coke dealer and all of them do coke and get drunk almost every night. When Travis gets home from college he starts partying , going out and getting messed up. He starts hanging out with his old friends Kyle, Michael, Claire and Emily. One nig...more Samantha Wise

Specific events & Plot : There is a nineteen year old boy named Travis Wayne who flunks out of college and goes back home. When Travis was thirteen him and his buddies started selling and smoking weed. Now one of his best friends Kyle is a coke dealer and all of them do coke and get drunk almost every night. When Travis gets home from college he starts partying , going out and getting messed up. He starts hanging out with his old friends Kyle, Michael, Claire and Emily. One night when they are all at a party Travis noticed that his ex girlfriend of five years is seeing somebody else. He wasn't to happy about that so he goes up to Laura's boyfriend and confronts him. They end up getting into a fight and Travis gets kicked out of the bar. Later on that night Travis keeps trying to get a hold of Laura but she ignores his phone calls. Around midnight Travis drives over to Laura's parents house. Laura comes out and Travis starts crying and telling her that he loves her and misses her. Instead of Laura talking to him she punches him in the face and tells him to leave, then goes back inside. Travis is really upset by this so after a couple of days of staying at home he goes out with Claire. They go out to bottoms up to have a couple of drinks, then they go back to Claire's. This what the night Travis started getting really bad off on coke. Travis' dad invites him out to lunch so they can have a talk about Travis getting back into college. His dad said that he had until the end of the week to apply for three colleges. While he was eating lunch with his dad he got a phone call from Laura and she asked him if he would like to hang out later on that night and he does. That night he takes her to the park where he took her virginity at when she was fifteen and they sit on the slide and talk. They talked about getting back together and for fourth of July Travis taking Laura to his parent's cabin. When Travis drops Laura off at home he drives by Kyle’s. While they were all sitting around talking Travis tells Kyle how he is taking Laura to his parent's cabin and for some reason none of Travis' friends don't want him hanging out with Laura, but he doesn’t care. The weekend of fourth of July they go to the cabin, he takes her out to eat, to the beach and they have a good time. When they get back from the cabin they hear that Emily and two kids got killed because Kyle was mixing alcohol and drugs. Kyle and Emily were on there way home when Kyle blacked out and ran into the side of a house killing Emily and two kids. Kyle got arrested and was charged with murder. When Travis went and hung out with Michael they got to talking. Michael and Travis were talking about Cliff and how he is strung out on heroine. Then Michael told Travis that while he was in Arizona and Hawaii when Cliff asked to borrow three hundred dollars it was to pay for Laura's abortion. This really gets Travis mad so he goes up to Laura's work and cusses her out. He calls Claire and ask her if she would like to go to dinner so they can talk about everything that has been going on. Later that night when Travis went back to Claire's he told her that while he was in Hawaii he met a girl and they started talking. One night when they were hanging out they mixed drugs and alcohol. That night him and the girl went to the girl's house and they had sex. The next morning when he woke up she was dead and he thought that he killed her but he wasn't sure because he could not remember the night before. Instead of calling the police he just left. Claire got mad at him and told him that he needs to turn himself in that her family should know who was with their daughter before she died. Then she kicked him out of her house. The next day Travis decided to go back to Hawaii and turn his self in. He was leaving in three days. The day before he was going to leave for Hawaii he got a call from Cliff. Cliff asked him to come to the hotel to help him at first Travis didn't want to but he gave into him but he did. When Travis gets to the hotel he goes into room nine. All the lights are out because it is a abandoned hotel. When he goes inside cliff ask him not to freak out when he turns the light on so he agrees. Cliff turns the lights on and Travis sees all this blood and wounds on cliff. Then Cliff asked Travis to walk in the bathroom, when he does he sees Katie in the bathtub dead. Cliff wanted Travis to help him move the body but he wouldn't. Travis left and before he got in his car he heard the sound of a gun and then there was no more Cliff. The next day Travis leaves to go to Hawaii. When he gets there he goes to the police station. He finds out the girl overdosed in her sleep, but he still gets charged for not reporting her death. At the end of the book Travis goes to prison for eighteen months.

Setting: The setting takes place in a rich neighborhood. The houses are all at least two story’s , with huge yards and a pool in the backyard. Everybody drives really expensive cars, like Cadillacs and Bentleys. The adults are very successful. They're lawyers , doctors & mayors. Then you have the teenagers that are all strung out on drugs walking around or having really junky cars.

Characters: The main character is Travis, who is home for the summer and starts doing drugs and drinking. Cliff , was Travis' best friend when they were growing up but now he is really bad on heroine. Kyle, is the dealer until he kills Emily and two kids. Michael, is in a band he becomes really good friends with Travis in the book. Laura, is Travis' ex , who Travis is in love with but she completely screws him over. Emily, is Kyle’s girlfriend who gets killed in a car wreck. Claire, is Travis' best girl friend who helps Travis out a lot in the book.

Conflict: The conflict in the book is Travis wants to get off drugs and go somewhere in life but he doesn’t know how to. It seems that every time he goes to quit drugs and start looking for colleges something comes up along the way. For example he was doing really good when him and Laura were talking again but when he found out about the abortion everything went back down hill. He started doing drugs once again because when something goes wrong he goes to drugs to fix all of his problems. The thing is he doesn't realize that drugs doesn't take your problems away permanently but just for the time of your high.

Resolution: Travis' dad tells Travis he has a week to apply for three colleges or he is taking everything from Travis. His car, and all the money they just hand over to him. Also Claire talked him into turning his self in. So Travis goes to Hawaii turns his self in and now he is in jail. Which means he won't be doing no drugs and it'll help him quit. When he gets out he can go to college and become something in life.(less)

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Nov 05, 2010 Cara rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This review box only asks me what I think, not of a fully-written critique. So I'm just going to say what I think. This book blew my mind.

Every time I read it I pick up something new. Myers's writing style is brilliant. When I read it, I don't picture the book being by written by some older guy thinking back on his life as a young man and writing it from the older man's perspective. Rarely when I read a book do I forget the author exists. This book made me forget that Travis Wayne doesn't actual...more This review box only asks me what I think, not of a fully-written critique. So I'm just going to say what I think. This book blew my mind.

Every time I read it I pick up something new. Myers's writing style is brilliant. When I read it, I don't picture the book being by written by some older guy thinking back on his life as a young man and writing it from the older man's perspective. Rarely when I read a book do I forget the author exists. This book made me forget that Travis Wayne doesn't actually exist. As far as I've been concerned, he might as well be real and still in Hawaii like he is at the end of the novel.

Throughout the story, we see Travis Wayne, a lazy slug of a druggie, evolve from a trainwreck to a train pulling itself back onto the tracks, what with the way he admits to what he did in Hawaii. During the story, Travis's voice is audible. You can hear him when he thinks about his ex-girlfriend Laura, his best girl-friend Claire and how beautiful she is, how he feels when he gets high and what's going through his mind right before Cliff kills himself. Honestly, I forgot an author that wasn't Travis Wayne wrote this story.

Acutely tuned facts, sub-plots, twists, and tie-ins all lie within this novel. There is so much to see in here, so much to appreciate. The writer's voice and the style of the story itself is realistic. You can hear it as the story told by some average nineteen-year-old guy. This book is a win. Why more people haven't read this, I don't understand. It's such a beautiful story. I've read it numerous times and love it more each time. I had my friend read it and the day after he finished it he returned me my copy and expressed just how screwed-up it made him feel. He was blown away. He was captivated and fell deep into Travis's character, inhaled every line of blow and tasted every pull of JD. I did, too.

Some people say that they hated the book because of the copious amounts of foul language, sexual content, and drug content. At first I wasn't to sure about it either. I looked at it subjectively and yes, it's a mildly disturbing book. But objectively, the qualities are admirable. I learned so much from reading this book, not only about the lifestyle that Travis lives and how very real it can be, but about myself. I learned so many lessons from this book. These are lessons that nothing else taught me because they weren't all-out ballsy enough to teach me. This book was crude to the core. It is amazing.

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Dec 27, 2009 Jessica rated it 5 of 5 stars

Everyone has a small collection of books on their shelves at home that speak to you in a way no one will ever understand. It's those few books that have made you cry, have changed your life, have made you think in a completely different way. 'Exit Here' by Jason Myers is one of those books.

Though the content is raw, inappropriate, and absolutely crude, it's realistic. It's scary. It's chilling. It gives you goosebumps and it shows the good and the bad of the human nature. It isn't formatted and...more

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Jun 17, 2009 Lana Barber rated it 5 of 5 stars

When I was reading this book, I was in an angsty kind of mood. I wanted to read something from YA fiction to fuel that feeling. I don't normally read things from the young adult section, but this book surprised me by being something very...enjoyable.

I think that there are a lot of YA books out there that have been fluffed up by people who want to be careful what they say to teenagers, they have been embellished until the story no longer resembles anything close to reality, or they are written by...more

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Jun 09, 2009 Lola rated it 4 of 5 stars

Travis is your average cool kid who has it all going for him – tons of drugs, rad friends, an amazing girlfriend and rich parents. Not to mention his “Johnny Depp” good looks. However, after returning from a year in school and a particularly nasty trip in Hawaii, things aren’t the same for Trav. His friends notice, his family notices and Travis can tell as well. As he tries to put his former life back together he realizes that maybe it wasn’t ever together in the first place.

I liked this book...more Travis is your average cool kid who has it all going for him – tons of drugs, rad friends, an amazing girlfriend and rich parents. Not to mention his “Johnny Depp” good looks. However, after returning from a year in school and a particularly nasty trip in Hawaii, things aren’t the same for Trav. His friends notice, his family notices and Travis can tell as well. As he tries to put his former life back together he realizes that maybe it wasn’t ever together in the first place.

I liked this book a lot. Almost as addicting as the coke so frequently talked about in this novel, Myer’s writing style was very interesting. I liked the way Travis used no quotation marks in the novel. It made this book unique for me. I also enjoyed the bits and pieces thrown in from his infamous night in Hawaii through the story. It kept the readers interest on multiple things at once. The story itself was plausible enough to be entertaining and some of the descriptions were laugh out loud funny. Travis is a pretty depressing character, but the story itself is depressingly beautiful as it revolves around the central statements, “This is not a love story. There are no happy endings.”

At other times, this book got on my nerves. Ok, so I know it may be “realistic” or what not but the majority of the people in this novel are wasted/high for the majority of the time. They are always doing drugs and drinking. It’s really sad and annoying. Another thing is for some reason the author felt the need to name drop? Like, was this a promotion novel for American Apparel and a bunch of misc. bands? Because they are referred to specifically through this book numerous times. It is just plain irritating. Which I guess is the right word for this novel – genius at some points and irritating at others. Myers is definitely a talented writer, and I am not here to dispute that. He creates an extremely versatile character in Travis, a character being bombarded with some of the toughest times of his life. He is able to create this intriguing tale that changes throughout the course of the book with the same basic theme running along underneath, which is hard to do in books that use drugs and pop culture to draw readers in.

I would recommend it to mature teens and early adults. It definitely does not glamorize the drug/party lifestyle, as nothing good ever comes as a result of getting high, but it still deals with these issues frankly and graphically. If you have issues with vulgar language, sexually explicit conduct or drug usage, get as far away from this book as possible. If you are searching for a real-life look into the trying life of a spiritually lost teen drug addict, this is for you.
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Mar 02, 2011 C. Grace rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: tenn-young-adult

I don't know about this book. My brother being two years old than I, read this book at 14. I read it at 12. I felt that I was mature enough to take any book, this one was different. I could feel the truth seeping from the author. It was a book about drugs, sex, murder, and other things teens should think twice about doing. (or maybe three times or twenty times). I don't think the author was trying to get teens to think it was ok to do these things, but... I don't know. I am only fourteen now and...more

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Feb 16, 2012 Wendy rated it 5 of 5 stars

I got this book not knowing much about it, and I also bought this on a last resort.
But I'm so glad I went back and purchased it. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys books that consist of teen drug abuse. Unlike other books who make their characters come from really messed up family's and all, the main character in Exit Here is a guy who comes from a rich family, who can afford to do anything he wants. He has a nice home, he's in college, his dad owns property basically everywhere...but that's wh...more

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Sep 22, 2011 Courtney rated it 4 of 5 stars

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This book is probably one of the most messed up books i have ever read. If you are looking for a feel good book this would not be it.The main character Travis wayne has gotten mixed up in some bad drugs and some bad people, not to mention drinking. After he fails out of college he comes home to his father who has hopes that soon he will return to school and make something of himself. When he finds his old love that he left behind there romance rekindles but its not a love story ending actually i...more

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Jul 20, 2009 Heather rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-reads

This story of Travis Wayne who returns home after flunking out after his first year of college to his life of drugging, boozing, and women was pretty gritty. Okay, seriously, it was really, really gritty. Parts of it made me a little bit sick to my stomach (okay, seriously, really, really sick to my stomach), but I couldn't put it down because the book was so real. The truth about these lives and their consequences was hard to read, probably too much for a Young Adult book, in my opinion (unfort...more

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Feb 17, 2013 Futurology rated it 5 of 5 stars

Very fast read....loved it. It's a messed up kind of love but this is what writing is all about. Pure entertainment! If you have an open mind and don't mind reading into the mind of an all around "bad-ass", with a very messed up social life; this is the book for you. Just don't let the book trick you into thinking this is the way life really is, it's very extreme but very real at the same time. Jason Myers did a hell of a job, it kills me to see people bash this book. I read this book in a day a...more

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Mar 03, 2010 Calcitrix rated it 1 of 5 stars

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Could this book be more misogynistic? Nothing really bad happens to any of the male characters (Cliff being the exception, I guess), yet we see almost the entire female cast suffer sexual or physical abuse, end up HIV positive or dead, thought of only as sex objects or as the subject of fashion jokes. How am I supposed to feel any sympathy at all for the main character Travis, who is the world's biggest jerk, hypocrite, and pathetic whiny loser?

Who was this book really written for? Someone plea...more

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May 23, 2010 Ilana rated it 5 of 5 stars

Travis just moved back from living in Arizona and Hawaii. Things begin to get rough for him as he moves back, having friends to remake and having drugs to retake. He is a crack addict, but not too much to the extent where it controls his life. Travis meets new people, but everyone seems to get a little grudge on him because of old memories where he had hurt them. Travis has somewhat a dark secret that has been kept for a while, and soon later, he finds who he truly is and escapes the nightmares...more

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Jan 27, 2013 Derek rated it 5 of 5 stars

I am so glad that many of you see this story as unbelievably crazy, but there are a more than few of us out there who lived this. Who survived this. This book was period perfect. The music, the scene, The drugs. This all happened. At times I wanted to run away screaming from this book, if only because it felt too familiar. I lost friends to heroine, saw them go to prison, slept with girls whose names I didn't know & walked away from car wrecks lucky to be alive. This shit, it happens. The au...more

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Apr 24, 2009 Katie rated it 1 of 5 stars

This book had way too much drug use and violent sex for my liking. But I stuck with it, in the hopes that Travis would realize that he effed up his life, but he could fix it, find better friends, or at least get his friends to stop using drugs excessively. Let's just say, this didn't totally happen. So I was stuck with an unlikeable, whiny, self-centered protagonist who is constantly doing coke and strangling his partners during sex for about 400 pages.

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Aug 25, 2009 Erin rated it 2 of 5 stars

This book was touted as a "modern day Less Than Zero" and it was exactly that. What was most disturbing of all is that in the author blurb, the author claims to have lived this lifestyle. It is truly frightening to think that people like these characters may actually exist somewhere in this world. It is a great argument for human euthanization. One thing that was never explained was why the male characters were just so violent and disrespectful towards women and why the women allowed this. An at...more

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May 12, 2011 Junior Mejia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Exit Here. THis book starts off pretty slow and mysterious. For me since im not really into the whole drug type of deal I didnt think I would like it but there was something about it that made me want to push through it. As the book went on I realized its not about drugs and breaking the law. Its about this guy who has a deep secret to why he's back where he is and wants to go back to everything he had. The story goes on and it starts to seem constant but in every even that happens there is a ce...more

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Aug 04, 2012 Rachel-ellen rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Raw. Intriguing. Honest. Myers doesn't hold back one bit. That's for sure. I have mixed feeling about this writing. It was trashy and powerful and it made me think. If you are looking for a book with a happy ending, or one that makes you feel warm and fuzzy when you finish it, THIS is not the book for you. This book made me heart-sad. It also made me feel uncomfortable and embarrassed at times, which is why I think it's so brilliant. I wanted to hit almost every character in the face. I'm a suck...more

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Apr 10, 2011 Travis Bremner rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, young-adult

This book is odd. Travis returns home after a lengthy trip to Hawaii and Arizona. He reconnects with his old life. He and his friends sit around all day, do drugs and have sex with girls. Not a bad life for some, I'm sure. The problem I have with this book is that I kept waiting for it get better, waiting for Travis to realize his friends were idiots, his girlfriend had moved on and those drugs weren't helping him. He did none of those things until the very end of the book. The author tries to m...more

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About Jason Myers

Jason Myers was born in 1980 and raised on a farm ten miles outside of the small town of Dysart, Iowa. After
he graduated high school, he moved to San Francisco where he studied
film at the Academy of Art University. It was there, after taking a
Screenwriting 3 class that he met and studied under the inspiring instructor
and author James Dalessandro. James helped Myers grasp the value of
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“But the thing is, my slate will never be swiped clean--this will never fade into the background and become some sort of learning experience or bump in the road. The shit that happened in my life and this book is real. And because I finally woke up to that whole realization much too late--the realization that life really happens and there is always a consequence for your actions--I lost everything in some sense, but in a weird kind of great way, if you flip it all around, I may have gained the most important thing of all: the truth.
I can live with that.” — 22 people liked it

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