I Like Lists

Recently, via a haphazard path of links on links, I came upon a fun website called Flavorwire. Its articles are all in the framework of lists. I am a listmaker by nature, and as it turns out, I also enjoy reading other people's lists on interesting topics. So as a nod to the list with explanation format of Flavorwire, here are some of the Flavorwire articles I have enjoyed:
1 http://www.flavorwire.com/291877/10-fictional-characters-people-need-to-stop-idolizing
This was the article that brought me to Flavorwire, and the list does make me go "who is looking at any of these characters and going 'that's me!' and thinking that's a good thing?"

2 http://www.flavorwire.com/290560/10-ya-books-that-scarred-us-for-life
Of those books on this list that I have read (Where the Red Fern Grows, The Giver, The Golden Compass, Lord of the Flies) I definitely agree that they are not for children. For those of you who are less familiar with these works, Where the Red Fern Grows is one of that overnumerous category of 'books about a kid and the dog(s) he loves and the dog(s) die at the end' which they all too often have children read in elementary school. The Giver, while conceptually interesting, is dark, has a confusing, potentially depressing ending, and (particularly offensive to me) vilifies knowing what words mean and using them correctly! Communication only works if all parties involved are understanding a word or symbol to have the same meaning, and the fact that a WRITER is ignoring that fact troubles me deeply. The Golden Compass (thinly veiled anti-religion propaganda) has horrible things happening to children, and a series conclusion which children will find unsatisfying, and which acts like it is a grown-up solution which you children readers just aren't mature enough to appreciate, but in fact, having read it as an adult, is legitimately unsatisfying and is not actually justified by the book even though he killed off the boy's father to try and make it make sense. Lord of the Flies is shipwrecked kids going ferrel and vicious on an island.

3 http://www.flavorwire.com/291123/10-of-the-weirdest-childrens-book-authors-of-all-time
Like #2, from what I was familiar with, i agreed with this list. But unlike #2, it gave me good ideas for pleasant future reading with Baby Girl, instead of triggering my Bad Book Angries.

4 http://www.flavorwire.com/293974/gorgeous-photographs-of-london-reflected-in-puddles
These are some beautiful, disorienting photographs, some of which can give a slight feeling of vertigo. I don't only enjoy lists of authors and books.

5 http://www.flavorwire.com/293384/10-antisocial-designs-for-your-inner-recluse
A bunch of stuff that aids aloneness. It is pretty cool.