Name: One Night at the Call Center
Rating: 3.8 (477 reviews)
Author: Chetan Bhagat
ISBN: 9780345498328

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Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM By Chetan Bhagat

Press 1 for technical support Press 2 for broken hearts.Press 3 if your life has totally crashed Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S appliance corporation Skilled in patience and accent management they help American consumers keep their lives running Yet behind the headsets, everybody s heart is on the lPress 1 for technical support Press 2 for broken hearts.Press 3 if your life has totally crashed Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S appliance corporation Skilled in patience and accent management they help American consumers keep their lives running Yet behind the headsets, everybody s heart is on the line Shyam Sam to his callers has lost his self confidence after being dumped by the girl who just so happens to be sitting next to him Priyanka s domineering mother has arranged for her daughter s upscale marriage to an Indian man in Seattle Esha longs to be a model but discovers it s a horizontal romp to the runway Lost, dissatisfied Vroom has high ideals, but compromises them by talking on the phone to idiots each night Traditional Radhika has just found out that her husband is sleeping with his secretary And Military Uncle nobody knows his real name sits alone working the online chat They all try to make it through their shifts and maintain their sanity under the eagle eye of a boss whose ego rivals his incompetence But tonight is no ordinary night Tonight is Thanksgiving in America Appliances are going haywire, and the phones are ringing off their hooks Then one call, from one very special caller, changes everything.Chetan Bhagat s delicious romantic comedy takes us inside the world of the international call center, where cultural cross wires come toge

Title: One Night at the Call Center
Author: Chetan Bhagat
ISBN: 9780345498328
Page: 238
Format: Paperback

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Arlington Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

I m really hungry which means I m in a really bad mood and I will be until I eat something There is pasta on the stove Do not fear my hatred Embrace it It is hungry, it is the truth I hated this book in a complete way, like where you go on a journey of hatred to be able to clearly and openly hate it I hate people that like this book, which is apparently a large portion of India I hate that I sat on the freeway in traffic thinking well, I guess it s for a certain sort of reader that doesn t read [...]

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Darsana Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

I have a major problem with Chetan Bhagat.Mind you, I am glad he has gotten a lot of people to read in this country and that can never be a bad thing I know a lot of people who ve started out with his books and then eventually progressed to better forms of fiction SO I ll begin by first acknowledging that Mr Bhagat has indeed created a niche for himself and has paved way for Indian authored books that sell.Kudos to the Marketing genius you are Now that that s out of the way, I am annoyed and qui [...]

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Trin Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

Like a Douglas Coupland book set in India, this novel follows a group of six people working the night shift at a failing call center on Thanksgiving Day They have to deal with Americans who don t know how to work their appliances, but they also have their own personal problems families, romances, career woes to grapple with.I liked Bhagat s characters a lot I enjoyed their somewhat meandering conversations and their relationships with each other I also, for the most part, like the marriage of wh [...]

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Dyuti Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

This was the first Chetan Bhagat book that I d read, soon after it was published, and trust me, I totally regret the decision It is one of the trashiest books ever written, by an author whom I consider to be armed with strategies on how to sell his book, than on how to write a better story This one man singlehandedly allowed the standard of contemporary Indian English literature to plummet down to such depths, that now no one can really assign how low it has fallen He inspired thousands by esta [...]

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Anu Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

I think the author knew how bad this book was and published it anyway on a lark Maybe he wanted to test the blind faith his readership has in him and do they love him This book was massively popular on release though its poor structure and ridiculous plot were well known I blush every time Chetan Bhagat is considered the shining beacon of modern Indian Literature He explain how he met a mysterious girl on the train who narrated the story and how he had an epiphany Simple explanation he was proba [...]

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Archit Ojha Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

Getting to know about a call center s lifestyle was an experience in itself.Although I didn t enjoy the story much but I know people for whom it would be an amazing read.

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Kate Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

This is the only book I have ever read where the author thanks Microsoft and MS Word in the acknowledgments section.Pretty thin soup, overall I picked it up because it s been very popular at the library, and I was interested in the depiction of what it s like to be a young person in India working at a call center Those day in the life details were the highlight of the book for me Bhagat s main thrust is that his group of five characters need to face reality, stand up for themselves and have the [...]

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Ina Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

The resemblance of the storyline with Chetan s previous book Five Point Someone made the book pretty dull and almost predictable This book very simply leaves you depressed Don t just follow the herd this one a miss

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Swapna Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

I think this is the best book i have for quite sometime because it depicts so realistically what goes inside the call centers.Also you really can relate to some of the characterse story holds you till the end and very enjoyable

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Geetika Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

Well thats a loser thing to read.I have heard of so highly about Chetan Bhagat and his first attempt toward writing i.e five Point someone that i decided to read the second book one night the call center Trust me i was seriously disappointed after finishing it up This was pretty idiotic stuff from someone who very proudly boast himself to belong to the best thinking tanks of the country the IITs and the IIMs The initial Call Center stuff was okay okay and i wished it remained to that only but af [...]

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Riju Ganguly Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

What an utter piece of s t If I try to enumerate the no of things that make this book so horrible, I might make some of you curious about the book, in the process helping this book get another reader NO Let me simply state that reading this book would result in serious reduction of your ability to think properly, and would make you shudder every time you think about a call centre, America, Indian youth, even God Humble suggestion avoid this book.

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John Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

I can understand why a lot of people really hate this novel It s not that well written, it s unrelentingly insulting in its attitude toward Americans, God enters into the story in a rather goofy way, and the ending is lousy Still, I had a good time reading it, and that makes up for a lot Bhagat may not be the best writer around, but, in a way, his immature writing style really captures the essence of the youth culture he s writing about It s realistic than, say, Reality Bites, but not nearly as [...]

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Biotech Myfoot Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

I can write a better book than this No.riously Don t know why Bhagat stoops this low when it comes to literary content or just raw content for that matter His book s has have got neither Not that he had stooped any higher before, but you get the point right The story is so filmy,a cheesy film has already been made on it and it did bomb big time obviously Agreed that he s making India read like never before, but sadly he s making them read zilch Now that he had his fair share of fame, made some q [...]

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Angelica Watson (psst! amrutha) Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

It was not awesome, or good.Just in between somewhereI liked the ending though.How God calls, and helps them out I find it verrry difficult to believe For the rest of it, you are most certainly wasting your time Sadly, you have to go through the beginning, middle and end to get the whole story So, torture comes first, and then freedom It s like that typical book, with the lead character repenting himself and mumbling and grumbling all through.But, of course, in the end, everything s okay and he [...]

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Sowmya Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

This book sucked at all levels That the author found an audience is surprising, shocking even, considering the numerous books under the Indian Writing Genre which are so much better and that just go unnoticed A group of call centre workers discuss work and personal life over the span of one work night Most of the dialogue is cliche, the personal situations that form part of the story seem like a melee of anecdotes picked from other books rather than inspired situations The preachy conclusion is [...]

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Catherine Hill Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

This is a rather astonishing book I picked it up at the library partly because my son works at an American call center Comcast and partly because it is Indian We re all familiar with Indian call centers this is feedback from the other end They aren t too impressed with us, either The fictional call center provides help to customers of a household appliance manufacturer, and the six person group involved handles the frequent and difficult callers Though the money is good, all six face personal cr [...]

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Deepak Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

A very disappointing second novel from Chetan Bhagat As usual, he spins a ridiculous story around a topic that is bound to buy him readers a call center of the many in India Bollywood is what he seems to be heading for in all probability, the B grade movies that people go to watch with their brains turned off The story has some outrageously fantastic elements like a phone call from God , while being narrated in the most pedestrian of ways I would not dwell on the plot at all there s none as such [...]

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Camelia Bhaskar Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

I bought this book as i love chtan bhagats books I have read five point some one two times and two states also two times , so when i hadcollege break I thought to buy this book This book as usual was lucid to understand , the characters were well defined but I found the story quite dragging.It was not fast moving and had twists and turns but it was sometimes boring, I loved the humour shared by the author at appropriate places which was amazing but the ending was unrealistic according to me and [...]

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Giridharan Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

An utter disappointment from Chetan Bhagat.I was quite carried away by Chetan s reputation that I never realized it was the worst book I had read, till I completed half the pages Well, to begin with,the characters were quite ordinary.The novel revolves around a group of six call center employees working in Connexions in Gurgaon, Haryana It takes place during the span of one night, in which all of the leading characters want their lives to change.Told through the eyes of the protagonist, Shyam, i [...]

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Finitha Jose Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

I have never seen a single Chetan Bhagat fan who loves this particular book As I am not an admirer and also this is an edited version of Reader s Digest , that might be the reason I find this his best work Other day I attended a pre Ph.D synopsis presentation on anti globalisation in Indian literature and this was one of the selected works It seems I am not alone What is special about this one All his other works are quite evidently autobiographical in which IIT and its entrance examinations pla [...]

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Meera Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

This book was awful If not appalled by the total lack of characterization and inane plot this book makes Bollywood seem realistic , not to mention BASIC EDITING, you will be disgusted by all the ethnic and racist stereotypes The sad part is that the topic of call centers, and the lives of the Indian youths that maintain them, is actually an excellent premise for a novel Bhagat really could have really shed some light on the topic describing the sacrifices that these workers make the fact is is t [...]

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Darshana Unnikrishnan Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

i didnt like the book that much the story is so predictable if u know chetan bhagat s writing style its a quick read i decided to read this book only because this was the only book of chetan bhagat that i have nt read yet the book is just ok ok the end god appears n starts giving advises in my personal opinion though that thought was ok it could have been written in a better way.overall just read the book to say that u have read the book dont keep much expectations.

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Christina Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

I feel so dumb I feel like the little intelligence I had has been taken away from me I decided to read this book as an experiment, to judge what Chetan was like, because I heard so much about how terrible a writer he is and all I apologise to myself for putting myself through this I can t believe I read till the end It was all so lame the story, the jokes , the writing, everything Never again, is all I can say.

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Alia Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

Nope, nope, nope Just no It was a struggle to read this and I would not wish it upon my worst enemy If you don t want to have a reading slump for the rest of your life, do yourself a favor and skip this book.

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Richa Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

I fail to understand the hype

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Vivian Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

For the first three quarters, this is a perfectly decent novel about a group of people working at a call centre Shyam, the team leader and the main character, struggles to get over his old girlfriend, Priyanka, who works in his team To add to his unhappiness, his boss Bakshi is an unprincipled moron who routinely takes credit for Shyam s ideas and work Priyanka still has feelings for Shyam, but wants to make her mother happy, and her mother wants a better match for her The other agents have thei [...]

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Tim Byron Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

Very mixed feelings about this book Start with the good things which I am afraid are outweighed by the bad things Bhagat writes well, characters are varied and resonate with real life It gives a fascinating and others have said accurate insight into the world of the Indian Call Center, which encapsulates the change that the new urban young are experiencing There is a savage, if not very profound critique of consumerism, which I welcomed Sometimes it is laugh out loud funny, the book picks up pac [...]

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Vibha★ Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

2 stars and that s pushing it.Honestly,I expected a lot from Chetan Bhagat.Granted,the first book I read that was written by him,2 States,wasn t too good either.But still,I would ve expected as he is one of India s best authors.Well,I m thoroughly disappointed.Didn t connect with any character in the story but they were quite realistic.Priyanka was a weird character I didn t like her or Shyam much and sometimes,they pissed me off to no end.The thing about God calling was kind of stupid as well [...]

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Aarushi Gupta Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

2.5 stars When I first picked this book up I thought it would be pretty great because of the god concept But as it turns out, the author instead of making the whole God thing a learning experience, made it seem rather childlike and irrational like a cartoon or something The book was actually alright till the end, the ending just blew the whole thing It made the story look like a flopped Bollywood movie By the end, my rating for this book dropped from 4 stars to 2.5 But apart from the plot of the [...]

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Nivedita (thebooklovingnerd) Jan 16, 2021 - 08:17 AM

Can I rate something 0 stars Because this doesn t deserve to be read, for god s sake Utterly disappointed.

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One Night at the Call Center By Chetan Bhagat Press 1 for technical support Press 2 for broken hearts.Press 3 if your life has totally crashed Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S appliance corporation Skilled in patience and accent management they help American consumers keep their lives running Yet behind the headsets, everybody s heart is on the lPress 1 for technical support Press 2 for broken hearts.Press 3 if your life has totally crashed Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S appliance corporation Skilled in patience and accent management they help American consumers keep their lives running Yet behind the headsets, everybody s heart is on the line Shyam Sam to his callers has lost his self confidence after being dumped by the girl who just so happens to be sitting next to him Priyanka s domineering mother has arranged for her daughter s upscale marriage to an Indian man in Seattle Esha longs to be a model but discovers it s a horizontal romp to the runway Lost, dissatisfied Vroom has high ideals, but compromises them by talking on the phone to idiots each night Traditional Radhika has just found out that her husband is sleeping with his secretary And Military Uncle nobody knows his real name sits alone working the online chat They all try to make it through their shifts and maintain their sanity under the eagle eye of a boss whose ego rivals his incompetence But tonight is no ordinary night Tonight is Thanksgiving in America Appliances are going haywire, and the phones are ringing off their hooks Then one call, from one very special caller, changes everything.Chetan Bhagat s delicious romantic comedy takes us inside the world of the international call center, where cultural cross wires come toge

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