[Von Däniken's usual arguments are presented in Pathways to the Gods], but valuable space and reader attention is taken up by a polemic against detractors and by name dropping. These qualities, and the sloppy organization of the book, detract from the precision and objectivity required of such an argument.

Jo-Ann D. Suleiman, in a review of "Pathways to the Gods: The Stones of Kiribati," in Library Journal, Vol. 108, No. 2, January 15, 1983, pp. 128-29.