ON@TCC-Chetan Bhagat-
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Hilarious!!!This is one word that I would like to say about the book that I just finished.” One night @ the call center”, by Chetan Bhagat, whose first book, Five Point Someone-What not to do in an IIT was another great piece of writing, not from the literary angle but from the normal not so brainy types angle(me included in that club).
This guy CB(as I discussed with my cousin Visakh) will make you feel envious of not being Chetan Bhagat, because whatever he quips , quotes and comes out as one liners (which are truly amazing) are the ones that I have thought, you have thought , almost all the guys of this age group has thought. Probably, things that you kept to yourself or told in your close friend circles, things that you thought are not all that significant…and then you have the feeling, what will I do when I write a book, say 10 years down the lane…wont I be idea starved???
Most of these remarks in the book made me feel, “oh!! how did he know this?”.
Lots of research happened to come out with this book for sure….if I continue to be in Shyam’s shoes(Shyam is the protagonist and the story teller), I would rather say, “Like fuck I care”….you would have noticed, Chetan has maintained the style in which Shyam speaks, through out the book.
The idea that Americans are dumb and they would even buy the last part of terror may sound indigestible for a few, not for me…having worked in a mediocre call center in not so mediocre process with not at all mediocre customers, I know even the rich Americans are dumb….
This book is not a high funda kinda book, but a book that every body will feel like delving deep into. A high schooler would rather chuck all the Hari-the Porter(or Harry Porter) and go for this, as he would find it a bit spicy, a teenager would read it to get a feel of things happening around and end up with Wows and Awe….but this book is targetted at the right crowd, India’s youth…who are getting richer, and form a majority here….
Interestingly, the book even says that the whole idea of Youth and all that crap is about, selling Cokes and Pizzas…(couldn’t help myself from thinking about how MTV VJ and the female outside the pub are described…:-)))
Management jargons, quasi Managers, Bosses who are real pain in the arse, how the society sees a call center guy…all these covered…
even the language Managese…
Finally, Rupa(Publisher)’s brain of selling the book at Rs95/-. Had it been 300, I would have picked a pirated Rs70/- copy from Chennai, B’lore or even Trivandrum…smart guys they are… this 95 or a part of it went to Modern Books , Trivandrum and also Chetan…
They are books that you would not think spending on, guess they should be called FMB(Fast Moving Books)…they look for sales volumes….
About Chetan, he is the best story teller in town, with a keen eye on even the minutest point….
ON@TCC is a pageturner, don’t waste time..go get it…
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6 comments
anybody can write one book-based own one’s own life.chetan bhagat based many things in FPS on his own life.but here he’s doing a book entirely based on research.it’ll be interesting test of his creativity…will read n get bak wid my own comments:-)
Awesome read man! CB rocks..
found d book pretty ok. nthg gr8..just a good read when u hv got nthg better to do, say travelling in volvo from blore to pune..
one of the things that i culd relate to was checking out d names of all d females between 19-25 in the train chart.
found d book just maangeable. I read this book when i was travelling from Bangalore to Kolkata by flight..
I can say one thing that CB keeps an eye on very small things which most of guys(19-25 age group) do and he describes it well in his book..
Five points Someone was a better book to read than this book.
Gyan
Agree to that..
Thats why its selling…
Nik
I think your review of the book is good. But can’t agree with you when you say “All Americans are stupid”. Maybe it is like saying “All Indians are software engineers”. As if it is just luck that a nation of fools is the present super power.
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