Top Fives

Top Five Favourite books

1. The Harry Potter books (fine, if I have to choose one it would have to be Harry Potter and the Prisioner of Azkaban) by J. K. Rowling

2. El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera (Love in Times of Cholera) by Gabriel García Márquez

3. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

4. El Informe the Brodie (Dr Brodie's Report) by Jorge Luis Borges

5. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins


Top Five Subtitled films

1. The Seventh Seal

2. Le Couperet (Arcadia)

3. 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days

4. Let the right one in

5. The Apu trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Apu Sansar)


Top Five films

1. Reservoir Dogs

2. District 9

3. The man who killed Liberty Valance

4. Spellbound

5. High Fidelity


Top Five dream jobs

1. Explorer (16th century)

2. British scientist (19th century)

3. Writer

4. Film director

5. Journalist or editor (for an interesting magazine, cinema or books, or music if I ever develop good taste in it)


Top Five songs

1. Yesterday by The Beatles

2. Romeo and Juliet by the Dire Straits

3. Mediterráneo by Joan Manuel Serrat

4. 19 Días y 500 Noches by Joaquín Sabina

5. Sunday Morning by Maroon 5


Top Five things I'd take to a desert island (non-essential)

1. A copy of Robinson Crusoe

2. A bottle of good rum

3. My iPhone (if I could charge it and had headphones with me)

4. A bed (with bedding)

5. Chocolate