Margrit's 2005 top eleven (or so) lists

Films
11) Star Wars Episode # Whatever ( OK OK I KNOW! Bilious script, horrid acting--except Ewan MacGregor and Yoda--but it's Star Wars' intro/finale.)
10) King Kong (Too many ripe-for-video-gameland dinosaurs and creepy-crawly exoskeletoned-giant-crab-cockroaches --but, strangely compelling & almost as sad as Brokeback in the impossible love aspect. And it's a heartfelt homage to the original Kong.)
9) Crash (Now, that's some acting)
8) Apres Vous (it's French--love it)
7) Walk the Line (yeee-haw, honey)
6) The Telling Takes me Home (great documentary by Heather Carawan click here to own it!
5) 40 Year Old Virgin (I am not kidding!!)
4 ) Fingersmith (BBC Production--we own it!!!!!!)
3) Walk on Water (rent it!)
2) Constant Gardener ( we should all own it)
1) Brokeback Mountain (simply the best)

TV ...well I don't watch much TV but my faves are these:
4) Henry VIII (BBC)
3) Coupling (BBC version PLEASE!!)
2) SIX FEET UNDER (rest in peace)
1) BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ((OOOOOH YEAH!)

CDs:
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9) SEAWORTHY
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1)SEAWORTHY

BEST BOOKS
(so, some of these were 2004--whatever, I read them this year, ok?)
11) Tolkien and the Great War (you gotta know more about the Professor)
10) Night Watch (I love Sarah Waters --she wrote Fingersmith too!)
9) A Changed Man (hip)
8) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (yes yes me too--and tears were shed)
7) Cloud Atlas (mind blowing)
6) Time Travellers Wife ( cool & astonishingly tearjerking)
5) Egyptologist ( brilliant & so very wrong)
4) The Kite Runner (devastating)
3) Will in the World (best Shakespeare bio EVER)
2) A Private Family Matter by Victor Rivers ( by my brother-in-law!!) click here to own it!
1) BEAUTIFUL JIM KEY by Mim Eichler Rivas (by my SISTER!!) click here to own it!

Best Mountain Climbing Book I read this year (or ever): "TOUCHING THE VOID" by Joe Simpson

Best revisited book of my youth: "God Emperor of Dune" by Frank Herbert

Best new high protein snack: QUORN

Best energy bar: LARA BARS

Favorite snack: CAMBOZOLA with pears. Yum.