# What Young Adult literature did you/do you love?

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-young-adult-literature-did-you-do-you-love/982237/58 "2023-04-06T18:27:15Z")

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> [@TheZenPaperboy](#):
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> Why is Good Times/Bad Times discredited?

I explained the basic problem fairly clearly in [a post about 3 years ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-things-about-a-creative-work-you-realize-after-the-millionth-time-open-spoilers-possible/504117/3487).

Subsequent to that, I swear I found commentary from James Kirkwood himself, disavowing the anti-gay bigotry in the book. But, maybe that’s me projecting how I think he would have felt. (Looking him up now, I see he died in 1989 😢 )

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