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Title: The Bat/Bab, A Sub-Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart ISBN: 0-7388-4844-1 Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Pub. Date: 08 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: sheer delight
Comment: I have a copy of this book that once belonged to my grandmother, and it has been a favorite of mine for years! One can't help laughing at Bab's simplicity and superficiality, and yet her genuine sweetness. It also provides a charming glance into high society of the time. As for it being a "tear-jerker", as I have seen it described by another reviewer, it is pure comedy and very lighthearted. I'm glad to find it isn't out of print!

Rating: 5
Summary: An amazing Book
Comment: This is the absolute best book ever written. It should be required reading for anyone who has at least a marginal understanding of the english language. This is the epic tale of a young girl (her name is Bat/Bab) who is a sub-deb. A sub-deb, as the book so quaintly describes it, is a little girl who has yet to come out into society. When a girl makes her debut into society, she is called an uber-deb. An uber-deb is akin to a captain in the deb army, which, by a strange coincidence, is called The Deb Army.

The story of this book revolves around the trials and tribulations involved in becoming an uber-deb. An uber-deb, as everyone knows, is a very respectable position. When one is an uber-deb, one commands great respect. Bat/Bab is a siamese twin who wants more than anything to be an uber-deb, but his/her disability prohibits this honor from being bestowed. This story is the chronicle of his/her rise from lowly sub-deb to grand uber-deb.

When I read this book for the first time, I found myself weeping hysterically as Bat/Bab was mercilessly ridiculed and insulted. The cruelity of the uber-debs reflects our own trying times of moral decline. When Bat/Bab finally overcame his/her disability, i wept again, but this time it was tears of joy. This novel gives siamese twins, such as myself, hope for a future. After all, it's not every book you find that tells our particular tale. In short, I loved this book and would recommend it to anyone in search of a tear jerking novel about the human condition and man's inhumanity to man.