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How to Deal
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Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
Based on two of Sara Dessen's bestselling novels, "How to Deal" is a new feature film from New Line Cinema starring Mandy Moore. This is a two-in-one edition with the complete text from both novels--"That Summer" and "Someone Like You, " plus a movie tie in cover.
Mass Market Paperback, Movie Tie-In, Movie Tie-In Edition, 486 pages
Published
June 1st 2003
by Speak
(first published January 1st 1998)
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"How to Deal" is actually a package of two novels from Sarah Dessen, which were used as a basis for a movie starting Mandy Moore. I haven't seen the movie, but would like to in the future on DVD. The first novel "Someone Like You" I absolutely loved. It is a young adult novel. I thought it was so well written that it reminded me of why I came to like reading so much. The descriptions were not overdone. There was just enough description to feel involved and the dialogue f...more
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I love the movie How to Deal, so I decided to read the books. I personally liked Someone Like You more than That Summer. I think it's because Macon is such an intriguing character, and I personally thought that in the movie, he was made out to be a better guy.
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The first book, "Someone Like You:, was an excellent book, but "That Summer" wasn't that good. They were pretty similar, so it was a surprise when the author said, "I can't imagine how they can be combined!"
I, like a lot of other readers, saw the movie first. I didn't realize when I started reading Dessen that she was the other of Someone Like You. LOVED the book. . . way better than than the movie and for obvious reasons. The book fleshed out a lot of the story for me. And I liked Macon a lot more in the pages than on the screen. It seemed an honest and optimistic approach about issues that seem to get swept under the rug in more conservative families. I appreciated the choices that Halley m...more
This book was two books combined. It was about a girl whose parents are divorced and she deals with that and the chaos going on with her father getting married to a blonde "bimbo" and her sister is also getting married. And she finds out that her best friend is pregnant and she father of her baby dies in a motorcycle accident. She tries to balance out her life and deal with everything but she's just a mess. And she meets this boy and they fall for eachother and spend the summer togethe...more
Carla Money
Baltz
Pre-AP English 10
6 March 2009
How to Deal by Sarah Dessen
How to Deal by Sarah Dessen is about a teenage girl, Halley, whose life is changing. She has always let her mother tell her what to do and she did it. After she meets Macon, she begins to rebel against her mother’s strict rules. She begins to hang out with the wrong people and try drugs. Her mother notices her changing behavior and confronts her. She says, “Now, since ...more
Baltz
Pre-AP English 10
6 March 2009
How to Deal by Sarah Dessen
How to Deal by Sarah Dessen is about a teenage girl, Halley, whose life is changing. She has always let her mother tell her what to do and she did it. After she meets Macon, she begins to rebel against her mother’s strict rules. She begins to hang out with the wrong people and try drugs. Her mother notices her changing behavior and confronts her. She says, “Now, since ...more
So I read this book because I thought it'd help me understand the movie better, but it did not! I don't understand how both books in this volume relate or how they both inspired the movie.
Reading this book made me feel like I was back in high school all over again, reading books that were long and not great.
I am interested to watch the movie again (saw it new in 2003) and see if the plot lines that were not finished in the movie are finished in the novel. But I have a f...more
Reading this book made me feel like I was back in high school all over again, reading books that were long and not great.
I am interested to watch the movie again (saw it new in 2003) and see if the plot lines that were not finished in the movie are finished in the novel. But I have a f...more
I thought that this book was very well written. The order of events was intrigueing and made me want to read more. I didn't ever at one point in time get bored with this book. Halley is an ordinary girl, with a very cool bestfriend who gets pregnant, and the boy that is the father died in a motorcycle accident. Halley and her best friend learn "how to deal" with all of the problems they are facing. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a long intrigueing book.
How to Deal, covering two of Dessen's novels, was actually a bit of a disappointment. Both were good, but not as good as I was expecting from Dessen. She's written better, though this was still worth my time.
I definitely agree with many others that the first novel was far better than the second one. Like I said, of my past Dessen experiences, this one was not what I was expecting. If it had been my first read, I'm not positive I'd read her other works. However, everything else I'v...more
I definitely agree with many others that the first novel was far better than the second one. Like I said, of my past Dessen experiences, this one was not what I was expecting. If it had been my first read, I'm not positive I'd read her other works. However, everything else I'v...more
I absolutely loved this book. I feel like I can relate so much to the main characters, their relationships, and their situations. These books are really great for every single teenager out there, as long as they're okay with swearing, especially in the second book.
It helped give me more of a perspective to why my mom and I don't get along most of the time anymore and that my situations that I felt like nobody could understand? Other people CAN relate.
The characters are also...more
It helped give me more of a perspective to why my mom and I don't get along most of the time anymore and that my situations that I felt like nobody could understand? Other people CAN relate.
The characters are also...more
Competent writing, not too hard, and I think it will capture the interest of some of the girls who are willing to read something long-ish--I have a few of those students. They will like this/these. It's interesting to think how these two separate novels got blended into one movie. I just might have to watch the movie. I mean, I watched the first Twilight movie, so what the heck!
The books "That Summer" and "Someone Like You" deserve WAY much more credit than what this movie gave them. I didn't like it one bit. Total Waste of time. I love Sarah Dessen's books so much that they don't need a movie about them that totally ruins your viewpoint and intake of it. If you don't like books being made into movies,then definitely DON'T watch "How To Deal."
For those who don't know, the movie How to Deal is actually a mix of two of Sarah Dessen's books, Someone Like You and That Summer. Both are good (and included in this one volume), though I have to admit that after seeing the movie first, it was odd noticing fragments of the How to Deal story in one book and fragments in the other.
this book has two different books in it. the first one is one of my favorite books and it a complete page-turned i read the book in like two days because it was so good. the second one is just as good but in my opinion it starts a little bit slow but give it time. the book is a fantastic read and will leave you wanted more
After reading these books back to back, I can definitely see there were many simiarities between them. I can understand why they were combined into one movie.
I really love Sarah Dessen's book. She writes a lot about romance, but it's all real and not something totally unrealistic. Also, she finds the truth in everyday things.
I really love Sarah Dessen's book. She writes a lot about romance, but it's all real and not something totally unrealistic. Also, she finds the truth in everyday things.
This is an odd movie version package of two Dessen books, Someone Like You and That Summer, of which I like Someone Like You quite a bit more. I really like how Dessen delineates Halley and Scarlett's close but not always perfect friendship and her sympathetic portrayal of teen pregnancy. That Summer pushes fewer buttons, I guess; I didn't like Haven, the protagonist, as much as I did Halley and Scarlett, and I wasn't as interested in her issues with her family. Still, it does have the insight a...more
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For those of you who have read That Summer and Someone Like You this is just the mix of both. They combined both stories to make one movie.
This book had Someone Like You and That Summer. They were both really good (and a little sad) books that people should read.
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Twisted my mom's back to let me read it! She wouldn't let me watch the movie but I got her to let me read it, I cried a lot!
It was okay. This is one of the first Dessen books compiled into one, and you can tell she is still a maturing author.
techinquely i read them as "That Summer" and "Someone Like You" but it is still awesome
I love how my favorite author has one book with two novels in it! Even though I liked Halley's story better than Haven's, the two novels had things in common, which made it pracitcal to put them together in one book! I feel that Halley's story is more moving and emotional, where Haven's is more about regular problems in life and was a little bit more relatable.
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its just Someone Like You and That Summer put together. The movie was ok.
I hate movie tie-ins as much as the next book snob but desperate times call for desperate measures. I was bored out of my mind at work and picked up this book (actually two books in one- That Summer and Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen) because it was nearest to the register. I was surprised to find that I actually enjoyed it a great deal! I don't remember much about the story except that it has to do with a girl whose parent's get divorced (or something like that)and of course she meets a total...more
i saw the movie since this book is based on two of her other books
Loved both the book and the movie!! read it twice already!
i love this book.make me think about my bestfriend
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