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product_id: 63936841
title: "Rubik"
brand: "elizabeth tan"
price: "R479"
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# Rubik

**Brand:** elizabeth tan
**Price:** R479
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Rubik by elizabeth tan
- **How much does it cost?** R479 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐ 2.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Disconnected Novel Reads Like Collection of Creative Writing Class Assignments
  

*by �***. on Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2018*

RUBIK doesn't’ read like a novel, but like a collection of “experimental” short stories--or, more accurately, like a collection of vignettes prepared for creative writing class assignments.  The stories make little sense to me, and leave me feeling sad and mildly depressed, so I didn't enjoy them.I’m baffled by the Amazon classification of author Elizabeth Tan’s book as “Humor: Satire”.  What's funny about the torment of an aging piano teacher that is triggered by a cellphone call that plays the opening notes of a piano piece the teacher memorized long ago?  How is the sudden death of a young woman, who is now remembered only by traces left on Internet message boards, either humorous or satirical?The Amazon classification of the book as “Fantasy:  Magical Realism” seems more reasonable.  Since I’ve never heard of a “Magical Realism” genre, and have no idea what it is supposed to be, it may explain why I don't understand the stories.The author does seem to have writing talent, though I don't care for her style.  It’s choppy and frequently disregards the usual rules of grammar.  It has a certain rhythm and flow that you get used to, as you read, but that doesn't make the prose “lyrical” or “beautiful”.Here's a brief example, a paragraph describing a doomed character leaving a gas station mini-mart:  “Elena, on the diagonal, outside and away from the white glow of diesel and LPG, the faint croon of the radio playing infinitely for refueling motorists.”  Or another example, a sentence that opens a chapter:  “Kish, unarticulated today, without bar lines, spine creaking like a hymn book; soft, old Kish, having dreamed last night of being an engulfed cathedral, ascending to consciousness in perfect fourths.”Perhaps there is a story to be found among the disconnected chapters.  However, although I like fantasy and science fiction generally, I’m too literal-minded to want to spend time trying to figure out a “novel” like this one.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A challenging read
  

*by S***B on Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2018*

The authors writing style is really hard to follow.  She writes in short choppy thoughts and disconnected sentences that don’t, in my opinion, contribute anything to the storyline.Excerpt: “Kish, unarticulated today, without bar lines, spine creaking like a hymn book;soft, old Kish, having dreamed last night of being an engulfed cathedral, ascending to consciousness in perfect fourths.  Arched by a yawn.”Now I suppose some would read that and find it lyrical though provoking prose but I read it as disjointed fragments of thoughts and found the style a bit frustrating to read.  There may be a really good story here but I couldn’t seem dig deep enough under all the layers of disjointed thoughts to find it.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Good writing & interesting premise that doesn't go anywhere
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2018*

This is a very strange book, and one of the strangest things about it is that despite the fact that I still don't see the point in the story as a whole (if there even is one? I'm still confused on that point), I did actually enjoy reading it. I liked the author's writing style, and I'll admit that I'm a sucker for pop culture references like the ones this novel delivers in droves (especially considering it's fairly short length). Unfortunately, while it was interesting to see how the individual story-chapters were linked to each other, nothing ever really seemed to come of it...or at least nothing *sensical*, anyway. If you're okay with reading something just for the overall feel of it and you aren't looking for a cohesive story, you might enjoy this book, but I was really thrown off, particularly by the ending.

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