Talk:Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

message: This article says that McJob is a neologism created by this book and later fell into popular cuture. However, the McJob article says the term was created by Amitai Etzioni and only popularized by this novel. Someone with more information, please fix this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.157.213.174 (talk) 21:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: McJobs are temporarily low-pay work in unskilled fast food/service employers. First-time workers have to start out somewhere. I agree we should never start out low and end up stuck in a dead end job. The novel's theme is on young adults try to establish themselves when the odds are against them during a recession. 68.190.254.86 (talk) 20:25, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: McJob

message: Over at the Generation X article, it's suggested that the term pre-dates Coupland's novel by some margin, but that the novel popularised the term.  The article for the novel suggests otherwise.  Would anyone more knowledgeable care to comment?  --Plumbago 17:23, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for updating the page to answer my question LGagnon.  Cheers, --Plumbago 08:44, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of term

message: I've reintroduced the fact that Nirvana was Seattle based. Without mentioning the connection between the city and the band, reference to the proximity of Vancouver and Seattle makes no sense. Victoriagirl 03:04, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Seattle and Vancouver

message: Although the book was written by a Canadian, St. Martin's Press is an American publisher. In fact, it has no Canadian offices. Victoriagirl 03:04, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: American publisher

message: I'm wondering if this (above)is why it says Douglas Coupland and American in the 'summary box', whatever it is called. He has spent time in the US, and Generation X was set there, but he lives in North Vancouver to my knowledge and it a Canadian. If some of Karl Marx's titles have been republished by say U Berkeley, I doubt that makes Marx a Californian, so what is the rationale?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.52.184.74 (talk) 23:56, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: United States? Why?

message: Isn't the "followed by" section for sequels? Just because Coupland wroter SP next doesn't mean it's supposed to be listed there. -- LGagnon 21:17, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Followed by

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Generationzxthgde.jpg

message: I don't understand at all the reference to Chaucer and Boccaccio in the synopsis? Who's point of view is that? It is not sourced therefore it looks like the person who wrote the page feels that way and it's not relevant on a wikipedia page, is it? How odd...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.70.92.62 (talk) 15:12, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chaucer and Boccaccio?