RaveFull Stop\"I have been most successful thus far in describing this immense novel as an Inception fan fiction. To consider Rubik from this angle—that is, through the lens of pastiche—is not to undermine the work, but rather to applaud its manner of deconstructing conventional standards of value when it comes to art ... This is a work of uncanny doublings and echoes; rife with cultural allusions, real and invented. It is massively, profoundly intertextual. It is recursively — though not redundantly — metafictional. It is metafiction that swallowed metafiction, that chuckles at metafiction. Like all great metafiction, it deploys art as metaphor, a mirror for life itself, except here the reflections proliferate and the plot is lost ... For its formal brilliance and contemporaneity, Tan’s debut novel might bear comparisons to a work like Infinite Jest; however, if Wallace’s masterwork is a \'baggy monster,\' then Rubik is a baggie monster, neatly apportioned even in its sprawl.\
