Brief Interviews with Hideous Men made me cry a lot because I'm fairly certain almost everyone I know is hideous. I think it's terrible how much I relate to Meredith in The Pale King, someone who is obsessed with the notion of being seen and not just being seen as a pretty girl, but recognized as a suffering person and ends up with the one person who seems to understand only to find out that she was completely alone. Mostly I think it's terrible because I don't think I'm pretty enough to have Meredith's condition.