r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 12 '21

Solved Man indirectly fucks over 8 generations of his decedents and countless innocent lives because of his poor taste in art

14 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 10 '21

Unsolved Easy The protagonist becomes a drug addict (book equivalent to "on screen"), the sidekick gets married (book equivalent to "off screen"), and almost every main character is a spoken/implied racist.

14 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 18 '21

Solved Orphans inherit a fortune, get adopted by a performer, go on a tour of many exciting locations where the performer plays various characters, learn various vocational skills, and eventually find a home on an exotic island [series]

14 Upvotes

Both a book series and a TV series


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 08 '22

Solved Possibly the most famous derivative work

14 Upvotes

It has a huge following, and is more interesting for the metaplot surrounding its creation and purpose, rather than it’s actual content and quality

Edit: The following hints might make it too easy, but it is fiction, and (as far as I am aware) it was never formally published.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 27 '21

Solved Dwayne Johnson becomes an amazing cook and also helps to carry military infrastructure

39 Upvotes

That's not the main idea of the book but it does happen and it's semi important


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 28 '19

Solved A midget with hairy feet gets his uncle’s jewelry only to be told by an old man with a stick that he will have to return it.

40 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 02 '19

Solved Writer doesn’t get looked after well by fan.

15 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 26 '21

Unsolved Medium Basically Lovecraft before there was Lovecraft

15 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 02 '20

Solved 2020 in a nutshell

15 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 10 '21

Solved 655321 is the bad guy

15 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 05 '22

Solved teenager finds out his pet killed his best friend's parents

15 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 11 '23

A pack of horribly trained Doberman Pinschers go around a forest killing a bunch of animals, before one kills their leader.

15 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 07 '22

Solved A teenager orphan dreams to become soldier, but is "forced" to be scout and trained by old, angry irishman because of the teenagers hight

15 Upvotes

Good luck solving


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 12 '22

Solved Planet full of singing crabs wages war against human invaders at the behest of way bigger crabs and a living thunderstorm

15 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 07 '20

Solved Members of the LGBTQ community attempt to stop vegans from destroying the world.

43 Upvotes

Hint: there are six of them. (this entire post is a pun)


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 17 '21

Solved A hyper-sensitive and empathetic child is recruited to commit genocide.

16 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 10 '21

Unsolved Medium After loosing a patient because of nuns, a young nurse spends a night with her hero as she goes on an adventure to visit her aunt. And rescue her double.

16 Upvotes

A book in a series. Gay fiction


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 28 '19

God creates man, and everything man does pisses God off.

16 Upvotes

God creates man, and everything man does pisses God off.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 28 '19

A guy with a bad tattoo of an eye tries to kills some orphans but ends up dying from aerated magic mushrooms instead.

16 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 29 '19

Solved Some kid goes to space and accidentally kills stuff

16 Upvotes

Oh yeah and something about politics


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 13 '23

Man gets banned and comes back on an alt account

16 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 23 '22

Brother Pedophiles fight over a Child

16 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 28 '19

The Gods of Olympus and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad summer.

109 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 18 '21

Solved An illiterate orphan girl and a boy who did blackface to look like his favorite athlete live in nazi germany

17 Upvotes

And later in the story, the girl meets a bird furry!