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Title: Bouncing Off Guardrails

Subtitle: Somewhere in Life Between Victorious Triumph and Horrific Annihilation

Author: Axe

Narrator: Ernest "Ernie" Sprance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-13

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Axe is no saint and burns his candle at both ends with a flame thrower in the center. After bouncing from one guardrail to the other in numerous facets of life, even his .44 magnum can't protect him from the grim reaper as he faces open heart surgery at age thirty-four. When pending demise slams his brakes, this white collar rock star is forced to shake the Etch-a-Sketch of his life. He survives humble and weak, but still alive.

As his health slowly returns, he captures observations, thoughts, and memories that help him to better understand the world and people around him. More important are the internal lessons he learns as he creates an improved version of himself who's healthier and happier, but still a fiend for excitement. The whiskey in Axe's veins is replaced with adrenaline, and pure passions like heavy metal, crunching guitars, and roaring motorcycles are fully realized in his celebration of freedom and life.

Bouncing off Guardrails is a true, inspirational memoir that intelligently and graphically illustrates a drastic transition from a self-destructive underdog to a man gripping every experience by the throat and cherishing it.

Members Reviews:

I can relate somewhat to his life change due to his health issues because I had something like that happen to me

Although I'm much older than Axe, I can relate somewhat to his life change due to his health issues because I had something like that happen to me. It's a big deal to get close to the edge like that, and it can change your whole life. Of course lots of people have big health problems caused by lifestyle, and they don't change at all -- they continue eat, drink, chew, and smoke the wrong stuff like always -- and suffer and die, well it's a free country. THE BOOK IS ABOUT HIM, it's not about cars or motorcycles, it's all about him. He drives motorcycles, serious yuppie stuff, -- bikers 'ride' motorcycles. He is an educated man, but he admits he doesn't read much, (how did that work in his college, didn't work like that in mine, and I went to school in a very conservative southern state), doesn't like watching the news on T.V., etc,, so it's no surprise to me that his observations of our society and politics in the book are, shall we say, may be to the right of center for some people's taste. Like I said, the book is about him. I've read it several times, liked his videos also, wish him the best.

Read this book.

Read this book. This is not reflections of a whining entitled blue-blood, nor the ranting of a political dissident preaching of injustices, nor the intellectual pontification of a ghosted global leader, nor the dreadfully boring angst of a pop idol's attempt at self-actualization. This is an account of a man, an everyday kind of guy, meeting everyday kind of challenges and joys, feeling everyday kind of pleasures and sadness, written in everyday kind of language, each thread familiar to a reader but woven together into a fabric to that which his own. - singularly distinct.

Writing a review on what essentially is the personal "diary" of a man I know casually is thorny, but I will forge ahead.