One night @ the call centre.

Freakonomics. I was talking about reading that and then submitting a review. Hmm, it didn't happen. Instead I read some other books. The most recent one is "One night @ the call centre". It's by one Chetan Bhagat.
It's low priced (95 rs) and cover is shoddy. I bought it because I liked the author's first work, "Five Point Someone".
I must say I liked the second one too. As the title indicates, the whole story happens on a single night, ofcourse with enough flashbacks. It's about 2 young men, 1 old man and 3 young girls( 1 married among them).
Each one of them is in a mess. And this is the night the events reach a climax. The common features of 2 books by author are excellent witty observations, tight story and absence of melodrama.
The books will make excellent material for movies, or so I feel. There is a lot of american bashing in the book. Perhaps a bit over done. Hmm, probably a sort of revenge for stereotypic description of India/Indians by western authors.
Let me type in some excerpts which I liked.

'He thinks that just by watching the news, he can change the world.' (Probably refers to people like me.)

'Her Calvin Klein perfume will keep her carcass fresh for days.'

' a thrity-five-year-old American's brain and IQ is the same as a ten-year-old Indian's brain.........Americans are dumb, just accept it...'

'He was standing with the Statue of Liberty in the background, perhaps to emphasize that he was an NRI match and thus better than others.'

'When girs call a guy 'teddy bear', they just mean he is nice guy but they will never be attracted to him.'

'Girls are strategic.They'll talk about love and romance and all that crap--but when it comes to doing the deal, they will choose the fattest chicken,'

'Girls' handbags have enough to make a survival kit fr Antartica.'

'she stopped crying after ninety seconds,around the time any girl would stop crying if you ignored her.'

'What is it about MUSIC that it makes you remember things you prefer to forget?'

'How did girls manage before the mirror was invented?'

And many more. One may observe a bias againest girls. But it's because the story is narrated by a male character with a failed love story.

To sum it up. I had fun reading the book and I recommend it. :)