Wanna know something depressing?

Well, Probably the most depressing thing I've read thus far is the 100 pages about the Great Famine in Ireland. Not only is the fact that 100 COPIED pages (2 book pages per 1 copied page) to read is depressing, but the graphic detail into which the author went concerning conditions of those people in Ireland. I mean, she described the exact effects typhus, dysentery and a mixture of the two will have on your system, the squalid conditions found in the "coffin ships" which emigrants from Ireland sailed in, and the extreme misery faced by those people in the 1840's and 1850's. I mean, you wanna get somber? Read that for some really fascinating, yet horribly depressing information about the horrible conditions humans will attempt to endure in.