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Title: Life after Genius

Author: M. Ann Jacoby

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Theodore Mead Fegley has always been the smartest person he knows. By age 12 he was in high school, and by 15 he was attending a top-ranking university. And now, at the tender age of 18, he's on the verge of proving the Riemann Hypothesis, a mathematical equation that has mystified academics for almost 150 years. But only days before graduation, Mead suddenly packs his bags and flees home to rural Illinois. What caused him to flee remains a mystery to all but Mead and a classmate whose quest for success has turned into a dangerous obsession.

©2008 M. Ann Jacoby; (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Members Reviews:

Life After Genius

The book, "Life After Genius" is a very interesting read. It is not a book I would have chosen to read, however, my book club selected it, and I enjoyed it very much and the discussion that followed was quite interesting. I highly recommend it.

I liked the book.

It was not was I expected, it had been recommended to me. I didn't like the ending of this book.

unlikeable characters but the story still has me hooked

I'll try not to give any spoilers. I'm 3/4 of the way through the book, and would like to read the other reviews, but I don't want any spoilers myself. I'm finding Mead very unlikeable -- he's so whiny and self-absorbed, and people keep trying to help him but he keeps pushing them away -- but I very much want to know what Herman did that swayed Mead to leave college. The author trumpets it from the outset that it's because of Herman that Mead left college, and I'm getting annoyed with her for drawing it out so long in telling us what it was that Herman did that was so terrible. But hey, I suppose that means she did a good job making it suspenseful. And she does a good job in wry little authorial quips here and there.

I did glance at some of the reviews some time ago. I've had a book for a few years, and was finally considering reading it a few months ago. One reviewer complained about excessive use of the word 'shit' in the book. That put me off from reading the book then, but then a couple weeks ago I did finally start it. I agree with that reviewer about that word in this book. That word works well in some books -- "Catcher In The Rye" if it's in there a lot (I'm not sure, long time since I read it) -- but it flops in this book. It seems somehow not apt to play the role for a mathematical mind (or heart) that the author has it play for Mead.

It's a treat to have fiction about math. (And there really is a Hugh Montgomery, mentioned on Page 279, known for Riemann Hypothesis results. I even had a class from him, in complex analysis, at the University of Michigan, around 1990.) And I'm enjoying the novelty of a novel written in present tense.

Bazinga! Some sort of joke? (Spoilers)

This review CONTAINS SPOILERS.

I can't help but think that this book started out as someone's senior project in a Master of Fine Arts program and was at first intended seriously, but that during the workshopping it became more of an "Eye of Argon" satire, put out there to see if people would buy it. The title promised me a look at someone who left the intellectual life and went on to do SOMETHING, at least, but I'm so sorry to say that this book disappointed me greatly.