Thread: a long time betweens beers for Les Norton

Weeds,

Agree, very sad to hear of Robert G Barrett passing.

I love his Les Norton character and for a complete holiday tune out his books were a lot of fun.

Sad that there will be no more !!!

I am pretty sure i have read all of them at one time or another, "Wouldn't be dead for quids" and "Davos little something" were two of my favorites !!

George

The big red headed Queenslander dead !!!! RIP
Spent many hours with him. A sad day

what a shame. Not a technically good author but his stories and familiar locations made it easy to relate and be entertained.

I splashed out for Les Norton and the Talking Pie crust on audiobook for a drive from Sydney to Adelaide the xmas before. Kept me giggling for hours on the Hay plains. The narrator Dino Marnika has a gravelly slow drawn voice that aptly suits the character of Les Norton. iTunes seems to have only 2 R Barrett audiobooks. Another shame.

MLD

from memory he sold or somebody aquired the rights to a movie.......hopefully somebody will do a movie or a series of short movies

And here I was thinking Les may have lost a fight or actually got a knock back from some young spunky thing.
Wouldn't be dead for quids and the godson my 2 favs.

Sad to hear of Barrets passing

Cheers Ean

News to me too, very sad.
In my mispent youth we had "Keg & Les" nights in our flat at Uni, on Wednesday nights.
We'd get a keg, $5 entry and take turns in having "readings" from Mr Barrett's finest prose. haha

Thanks for the laughs, and getting yobbos and people who wouldn't look at books, reading them.

They frequently found their way out bush as easy light reading material during the quieter moments on exercise.

Sorry to hear of the passing.

yep Godson is my all time favourite and the rest not to far behind.
it was sad to hear about bob's passing due to the "spanish dancer".
i am running out of fav. authors, desmond bagley (pom)....long gone, bob barret now departed that only leaves Clive Cussler (yank) still alive but at a ripe old age and still counting and going strong