'Promenade of the Gods' by Koji Suzuki

Toward the end of "Promenade of the Gods," Japanese novelist Koji Suzuki pens one of those unfortunate sentences that invite reviewers to bludgeon him with his own pronouncements. "When it came to injecting a broad story into a person's head," Suzuki writes, "a vividly descriptive writing style was best."

By Dale Bailey

October 31, 2008