Catcher In The Rye (Book Club Book)

The book club book that I've been focusing on for a while really makes you sit down and think. You don't really cherish the book until the ending. Because in the ending, you realize that someone so negative can have such a strange outlook on life. 

           
Catcher In The Rye by J.D Salinger is a book about Holden Caulfield, an outcast. Holden has  just left Pencey University for the Christmas Holiday and he doesn't really know what to do with his life anymore. There are so many ideas and opportunities floating around him but he doesn't really take the time to take them in. He criticizes them and complains about everything going on.  He spends the majority of his time at bars with prostitutes. He pays them to have conversations with him because he hates all the phonies around him.
         He hates all his so-called friends from back in school because they're all phony to him. He hates fake people, but you would think he was one himself, the way he talks about them. He judges everyone every step of the way. He doesn't get along with his parents, because they want different things for him and he honestly could care less. He also analyzes everything and anything. Whether its the nuns on the street eating a cheap lunch or the rubbernecks that are always in his business.
            When reading this book, you realize how lonely Holden is. You realize how lonely he's always been and how his family is. His moms always locked away in her room and honestly it seems like the only person he appreciates is his little sister Phoebe. He's so lonely that he picks on everything that anyone does. Like when he's eating bacon and eggs and his parents are drinking coffee.  Although he basically hates everyone around him, he tells them everything about himself. He tells them the things he does and what he likes doing. He even tells the people that lack interest in him in general. And he finally realizes at the end that he appreciates these people as much a he "swears to God" that he doesn't.
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." That's the last line of the book. He realizes that when he leaves for good, he's going to miss people like his strange roomates and everyone he's talked to throughout his life. Even the people who have judged him since forever.
            He talks so much trash about everyone but yet he realizes that even the people who seem to mean nothing to you, mean the most.