Reviews by T.F. Torrey

There is a fine tradition of writers posting reviews of other people's work. The truth is, writing is such an intricate process that people who don't write (or who write only reviews) are frequently or usually way off the mark in their assessment of what a writer might have been trying to do, or what he or she might have meant. Writing is such a difficult and personal task; it isn't anything like what it looks like from the outside.

One note: Do not be surprised or suspicious if the majority of the reviews here are favorable. It is not because I only say nice things about other writers. It is because, like Jim Sallis and many others, if I do not like something, I generally merely decline to review it. I like it that way.

• Struck by Geoffrey Bromhead
• The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
• Blacburn by Bradley Denton
• Cripple Creek by Douglas Hirt
• Librivox's recording of The Railway Children by E. Nesbit, read by Karen Savage
• Librivox Short Story Collection 002
• Librivox Short Story Collection 003
• Small Apartments by Chris Millis
• Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Drive by James Sallis
• Earth Abides by George Stewart
• The Underwood by P.G. Tarr
• Trouble In Tombstone by Richard S. Wheeler