This is one of those novels that draws you in from the beginning--there's a mysterious scene from the past to start it out and then it vaults you into the present--where things are troubled. The main character is really likeable in her totally messed up way and you really feel for her plight even though she is just making mistake after mistake. Put this one on your list for 2010 for sure.

Blech. Don't bother...unless you like filth.

Bllaaah. Didn't like the main character. Nothing happened.

This book was an utter disappointment. Although it was decently written, I found myself caring more for the supporting characters than the main character. The last chapter is what pissed me off.....she was such a wishy-washy character, which is not what you expect out of the end. There was no resolution, and the story ended the way it started, leaving the reader to believe that the main character learned nothing throughout the book. Blech...don't bother with this one!

I have a hard time with books where I don't like the protagonist. In this case, a 30-something internet tycoon - Hannah - who is a serial adulterer whose poor husband finally leaves her. She stalks him, climbs a balcony to spy on him and his new girlfriend and falls three stories (only to slightly bruise her ribs and impale herself a little bit with a nail to the head - PLEASE!!). She is sent home from California, the land of all good things, to Charleston, where her mother, stepfather and gay b...

workaday mp3 - looks like an angsty affair, still, with so much to do it'll sing along in the background - and there is always the option of shouting out 'next' if it really doesn't suit.Not much later - "NEXT" hahahahahah Really not a Bettie type book at all.Blurb - Crouch's accomplished sophomore novel kicks off with a flashback: 20-odd years ago, Buzz Legare vanished while on a fishing trip. The fallout of his disappearance and presumed death appears in his 30-something children: Hannah drink...

I think if I lived in or had any ties whatsoever to San Francisco or the Carolinas, I would probably have appreciated this novel more. Hannah, the protagonist, is 35 and a complete mess: alcoholic, adulterous, immature, and totally self-indulgent--lost and stuck in a teenage frame of mind. I kept trying to feel sorry for her, but at the end, just wanted to slap her upside the head and tell her to grow up. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood when I read it??? Her gay brother, Palmer, isn't much bett...

I don't know. It's hard to truly like a book when the main character is a self-indulged, spoiled attention whore. I mean, yes, poor baby girl was abandoned by her father, who might or might not be dead. And yet I had zero sympathy for her, which is a good indication that she wasn't drawn in a particularly effective light.Why three stars? Palmer. He's just as messed up from the past as Hannah, but expressed in different ways, and I truly felt for him. And one moment in the book just took my breat...

This is a 3.5 star for me. I see that a lot of the reviewers didn't like the main character, which impacted their ratings. While she is flawed, that makes her real. Life isn't always about the incredibly beautiful woman who gets the man of her dreams and has incredible sex forever after. Hannah makes mistakes - lots of them- and continues to live her life the best she can. I liked the writing and I was engaged enough to care what happened to the characters.

According to the author, this work of fiction was actually born out of a true story. Her great-grandfather “went fishing in North Carolina in 1913 and never came back. There was no bad weather or anything, but all his family found was his little fishing boat floating in the river. He didn’t seem depressed and wasn’t an unreliable person in any way. He just disappeared.”Eleven-year-old Hannah Legare and her forty-one-year-old father, Buzz, are out fishing in her Dad’s flat-bottomed aluminum boat....

Men and Dogs was a pretty serious audiobook that brought us into the life of Hannah Legare when she basically hits rock bottom. Hannah was married and had a very successful on-line business but somehow managed to lose it all by never fully accepting her father's absence in her life.After a life-threatening accident Hannah finds herself back home in Charleston being nursed back to health by her family that she hasn't seen in years. Upon arriving at her childhood home she starts to wonder once aga...

I was having lunch with a group of friends last week, and one of the ladies gave me a book she’d discovered for a dollar. For only a dollar she’d figured she couldn’t go wrong, and when I took it out of her hand, my thought was; free, how could I go wrong? The jacket verbiage informs the would-be reader that the story is about the heroine and her efforts to find out what really happened to her father, when he disappeared while on a fishing trip with the family dog, two decades earlier. We are ta...

I don't know what was worse: the stilted writing, the protagonist cheating on her husband a million times and still being deemed a good person, the protagonist thinking her brother's homosexuality is a "flaw"... it was all shit.

I listened to the audiobook and I warmed to the voice but I didn't like Hannah. Get over it and move on with your life. When she takes the boat out with Palmer's dog to recreate the last cruise her father took it was time to lock her up and throw away the key. Grow up!When Hannah Legare was eleven, her father went on a fishing trip in Charleston Harbor and never came back. And while most of the town and her family accepted Buzz's disappearance, Hannah remained steadfastly convinced of his immine...

Men and Dogs's main character Hannah has been reviewed by some women as being pathetic, selfish and unrealistic. I would say she's a little complicated and screwed up like a lot of people I know. I find this novel to be a story of stunted growth after the life altering mysterious death of a father. Self-sabatoge is nothing new and yes, even women can be unfaithful and have issues with intimacy. Someone noted that 'maybe if she grew up in Charleston she would 'get it' better. I don't see that as

I did not like the writing style of this book. I don't know if it was the point of view, or just the overall quality of the writing. The story itself seemed to have a lot of potential, but I didn't find the main character likable in any way. And, as the story went on and the details of her life were revealed, she just seemed self-centered and lacked any real redeeming qualities. There were also some small details of the story that just really bugged me - the company they founded was all about se...