{"id":109,"date":"2008-02-19T00:43:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T05:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2008\/02\/19\/ontcc\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T12:43:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T17:43:24","slug":"ontcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2008\/02\/19\/ontcc\/","title":{"rendered":"ON@TCC: Do not toss aside lightly&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One Night at the Call Center<\/strong> is the second novel by Chetan Bhagat. I picked it up from the library, since I had read nice things about it on some website somewhere. What a tragic waste of time. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/images\/callcenter.jpg\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"left\"> This is a terrible novel &#8211; maybe the worst I have read in a long, long time. Badly written, with a cast of characters who never really come to life ON@TCC has almost no redeeming feature whatsoever. The author puts his characters in the middle of situations that are far-fetched and silly. And then, he resolves all these issues with the oldest trick in the book, something I would not allow my 11 year old to get away with. This book does not even deserve a description or a review, and I will not make the mistake of writing one here. Dorothy Parker is supposed to have once said (about another book), &#8220;This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly, it should be thrown at great force.&#8221; One night at the call center is one of those books. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Night at the Call Center is the second novel by Chetan Bhagat. I picked it up from the library, since I had read nice things about it on some website somewhere. What a tragic waste of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}