n0silla 's review for:

Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
5.0

Great story, well told, and unlike any book I have ever read. I'm not a big crime thriller/police procedural type, but something tells me that this book is an outlier even in that genre. Yokoyama doesn't waste a lot of time with poetic or belabored descriptions of setting. Almost the entire book is devoted to the thoughts and reactions of the narrator (a lot of it devoted to seemingly banal office politics), and yet it was a vivid story. I don't know how to explain it or summarize it better--it was just really fun to read (though I may have a perverse definition of "fun").