To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm still haven't finished Père Goriot and I began to re-read Crime and Punishment as It's been almost a decade since I read it and I was gifted a new and pretty hardcover edition. I forgot how neurodivergent the characters acted, I'm not talking about Raskolnikov but Luzhin for instance behaves and talks so strangely in his first meeting with his future brother in law and co., he first comes out as arrogant, then clueless with a "fellow kids" vibe. Marmeladov's rambling at the tavern was longer than I remembered, and what a pathetic and wretched person he is.
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King Lear
I'm thinking of watching the Ian Mckellen 
version when I'm done. I'm still in Act 1 because this Arden version has a 150 page introduction but it seems pretty promising. I guess gerontocratic rulers are oddly relevant right now.
Also Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History
I'm hoping this'll give me an overview of pre-modern Japan. But as the name suggests, it's must more interested in social trends than rulers so I might have to look elsewhere for that. I'm up to ~800 A.D. Silla Korea has (mostly) closed its doors, Japan is suffering recurrent plagues and is starved of both iron and labor. The central government are struggling to collect tax revenues, and the links between the provinces and the central court are breaking down.
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Watch Ran instead
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Oh, combining the two. Looks good, I'll check it out
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