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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 604175" data-attributes="member: 158">As it is often said, there is no accounting for taste. One of my favorite book series of all time was the Cross-Time Engineer Series by Leo Frankowski.However, most people who read it come away with the impression that it is sexist, misogynistic tripe. To each their own. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I liked the series for four reasons:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It deals with time travel, which I am a sucker for.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It takes a "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" approach by dealing directly with the Engineering problems the traveller faced.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The female characters in the series start out relatively one-sided and weak, but pretty much end up running the show by the end of the series. Several of the chapters of the books are even told from the point of view of the female characters, and the last book is actually told from the POV of a VERY important female character.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The juxtaposition of a 20th century Polish socialist with 13th century nascent-capitalistic Poles is marvelous reading. If Poland is to stand a GHOST of a chance resisting the irresistable Mongol Horde, the main character has to go through the part of Marx that he hates the most - pushing the people through an industrial revolution by using capitalism as its incentive. The book doesn't focus on politics or economy, but focuses on a man doing something he rampantly doesn't believe in - to save his hide, and the half-million or so people who depend on him.</li> </ul>However, the five books are RIFE with midieval values on women, society, conflict between peoples, and the main character's take on all of them from a 20th century perspective. It is not for everyone.</blockquote>

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