Bridging the Digital Divide
Posted August 17, 2011 by blogbot in News | 1 Comments
Ricci Website Earns First Comment on Origin of Species
Almost three years after Nino Ricci’s novel The Origin of Species was first published, its webpage has finally garnered its first reader comment.
“I am at a point in this book where I am not sure I want to finish reading it,” wrote Linda Anderson Stewart, going on to describe the book as “one of the most depressing ” she had read in a long time.
Ricci was ecstatic when the comment showed up on his website dashboard.
“Never mind the Governor General’s Award, never mind the Order of Canada. As far as I’m concerned, this is what counts. Contact. Bridging the digital divide.”
Ricci says he hopes Ms. Anderson Stewart’s comment will spur other readers to post their opinions of his novel.
“I am no Polly Anna,” Ms. Anderson Stewart ended her post, “but I don’t find any of these characters worth reading about, other than to confirm all my worst opinions of human nature.”
Linda,
Nino takes you far away from all the fluff in the world. When he writes about something depressing, which he usually does, it makes me glad because he takes the time to describe thoughts and feelings that send me off into clouds of vivid images and emotions.
Nino overcomes the need for a happy story that moves along quickly, because every word Nino writes is an experience to be marvelled over. He describes a whole character through the tiniest details of facial expression and body language. In The Origin of Species he took me to Galapagos and made me feel the water and see and smell the land and the creatures. This work is a beautiful and poetic journey into how people really do think and feel. He gives us brutal reality, but in such a magical way.