3.5 star 
 New review soon!!! 
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 I can understand why this book really works for a lot of people. I, myself, feel that people around me were phonies and talk about genuinely bullshit stuff too. But instead of learning to understand why society becomes like that, how we individual tend to stray off to banality, and explore the multi-dimensioned of human, Holden just whined and whined, while in some way he acted like a phony too (I don't care if he hates himself for it. Either you change things or you don't, stop being ambiguous.) 
 The writing is terrible. It made you feel like confining into some angst, depressive, traumatic teenager for a very long and repetitive period. I sincerely hope one day Holden can grow up to accept the reality of this world and find an authentic, not-so-phony thing to do. 
 Despite that, as an update, I must acquiesce that at least Holden is sensible enough to question about the state of the world and I like him for that. 
 I have a love/hate relationship with this book - it questioned many things about humanity, but he seems coward to not be himself and become what people expect him to be. And I don't think the part of calling up prostitutes and went to clubs with woman for "a taste of life" is that necessary.