# What Young Adult literature did you/do you love? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [April 6, 2023, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-young-adult-literature-did-you-do-you-love/982237 "2023-04-06T06:32:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-young-adult-literature-did-you-do-you-love/982237/33 "2023-04-06T15:00:11Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Is Piers Anthony some kind of weirdo? …Yes? I read and enjoyed a fair amount of Piers Anthony when I was significantly younger, and didn’t really pick up on the skeeviness. But now… > [@Bigger perv: Piers Anthony or Chris Claremont?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bigger-perv-piers-anthony-or-chris-claremont/750568): > > Because it’s Throwback Thursday (except that it’s Tuesday). Anthony’s truly disturbing work on the [del]novel[/del] book-length typed wank session Firefly would seem to make him the easy winner; why his wife and children did not immediately divorce/disown him upon its publication has always puzzled me. But Claremont’s groundbreaking [merger](http://36.media.tumblr.com/1980c5cb92aa550099cf247ecfc4f8e7/tumblr_mlq9lu79ua1rvm5qqo2_r1_1280.jpg) of teenage escapist fantasy with lesbian sadomasochism should not be discounted. Thoughts? > **[Revisiting the sad, misogynistic fantasy of Xanth](https://www.avclub.com/revisiting-the-sad-misogynistic-fantasy-of-xanth-1798241312)** > > Here’s how this article was supposed to go down: As a kid, I lived in Florida. Back then I loved the books of Piers Anthony—especially his humorous, bestselling Xanth series, which is set in a parallel version of Florida where magic and mythical... --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-young-adult-literature-did-you-do-you-love/982237)._