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Topic #195: Make a top ten list of the reasons why top ten lists are often so disappointing.

1. Most people who write top ten lists don’t have the proper expertise to rank what they’re ranking.
2. The items on the top ten list are blatantly obvious and can be guessed easily.
3. On the contrary, some top ten lists leave out important elements that everyone would expect.
4. Or, some top ten lists are lists of personal preference rather than objective judgments.
5. People leave some positions blank to fill in later, then forget to fill them in later.
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7. When people run out of top ten items, they start rephrasing previous items.
8. Sometimes the same item appears twice, but worded differently.
9. Top ten lists sometimes don’t even have ten items in them.

What I’m Reading

A few days ago, I finally got a chance to finish reading the last book in a series that I started reading over five years ago – Scorpia Rising in the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz.

In this final installment of the series, Alex is sent on yet again another mission for MI6, even though he promised himself and his guardian that he would never get involved with MI6 again. This mission takes him to Egypt where all he must do is keep an eye out for a suspicious individual. What Alex and MI6 didn’t know is that this entire mission was set up by Scorpia, the criminal organization responsible for the death of Alex’s parents.

Like all the other books in the series, this one is filled with high levels of action, and Alex continues to show exceptional amounts of luck and intelligence. A main character dies in this book, but as a result, Alex gains the opportunity to start living a normal fifteen-year-old’s life when the mission is over. This book is a must-read for everyone who has read all the previous books in this series. I’m disappointed that the Alex Rider series is now over, because it was probably some of my favorite books that I’ve ever read.