For anyone that liked the books, there is a Les Norton series on ABC from tonight.

I didn't mind the books as they are a nice read, and pretty funny at times.

I wonder if this is going to be one of these things where the show is as good as the books?

I hope so, about the only movie that suited my image of the book was Steven King's "The green mile".

Well that was watchable, David Wenham, is always a delight.

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decrepit said..
Well that was watchable, David Wenham, is always a delight.

Agreed Mike. Had enough of the book's appeal transferred through to the screen albeit made that little bit easier as there's not a lot of depth to the books.

Thanks for the heads up will watch on Iview as i'm a cricket fan and watched that, I liked the books but the way Barrett described every mouthfull of food in detail gave me the ****s hope they have cut that out of the series.

It seemed okay. It must be fun sourcing all these cars from the 80s and trying to keep it consistent.

I think the books were funny in that Les, most of the time seemed indestructable, no matter what.

Its good to see some local content for a change too.

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pepe47 said..
I hope so, about the only movie that suited my image of the book was Stephen King's "The green mile".

Yes, its a tough ask though as Steven King went into so much detail that you 'knew' how a character thought. A bit hard to do that in a movie, but some are absolutely terrible, and I find it insulting to hear anyone talk about 'IT'. So far from the essence of the book, and a non-fan would be confused about what it was about.

I still remember friends trying to tell me that The Shawshank Redemption was based on a true story, and it almost broke their hearts when I pointed out the reference to Stephen King in the credits...

I'm surprised les didn't get a sex change.
warren & George did.

Pity Bob never lived long enough to see his manifestation (Les) on the big screen. I enjoyed his earlier stories of Les Norton where the plots were simple, "fighting, f$%king and and a bit of an earner".

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FormulaNova said..
For anyone that liked the books, there is a Les Norton series on ABC from tonight.

I didn't mind the books as they are a nice read, and pretty funny at times.

I wonder if this is going to be one of these things where the show is as good as the books?

There were 2 dogs at a rubbish dump and one was eating film. The other dogs asks what's the film like? 'Not as good as the book' replied the other dog.