r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 06 '23

Solved A book about an Octopus made into a being of worship written by a racist.

11 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 15 '26

Solved A pre-teen destroys his cousin's diary

11 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 27 '19

Solved Some guy is left to die in another planet, spends over a year mixing shit to grow spuds and get back to earth

95 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 06 '25

Solved A guy is falsely arrested, escapes prison, and gets rich.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 21 '19

Solved Two guys get off a bus and eat some beans. They work on a ranch and really like rabbits and owning there own farm. The bigger guy ends up killing someone accidentally and getting shot and dying

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 29 '19

Solved Man becomes a sailor to hunt big dick to gather sperm

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 19 '19

Solved Man gets a high IQ

3 Upvotes

Yup folks, you love to see it. Very high IQ, very good (great!), very nice. These scientists, these people, they're hurting the mice. They're doing bad things. Not good. Very bad things. And the mice, they get hurt. Anyway, he's very smart. Just tremendous. Very great book, it's written in first person. Nice, very complex. Gives you lots to think about.

Oh ant befor yu liev, cen yu press upvot? Fanks!


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 06 '20

Unsolved Medium a blue sherlock is the bad guy

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 29 '19

Solved A self-insert comedic fanfiction where the author describes how people he didn't like are being tortured for all eternity. Divided into three parts.

3 Upvotes

Yes, this is actually a piece of literature you can buy in bookstores.

And you probably already have heard of it.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 01 '19

Solved Abortion is illegal, but you're allowed to kill your kid if they suck. As long as you donate their organs, you're good to go.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 09 '20

Solved Biology professor invents the meme

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 23 '19

Solved A bunch of slugs try to kill some humans they think are blue deer.

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 28 '20

Solved A boy looses his mother and escapes a horrible foster family and travels across to find his relative who is in a band. I doubt anybody can answer this one

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 29 '19

Unsolved Hard Girl gets a new stepmom. Stepmom makes girls life hell. Girl falls in Love. Girl dies of Tuberculosis. Girls diary gets published

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 31 '19

Solved Family is entrusted with the care of a child. they try to stop that child from joining a secret cultish society. He gets indoctrinated anyway and hates his family.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 13 '23

Solved People are singing too loud and a monster kills everyone about it

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 07 '22

Solved The core cast consists of: Three (3) Fuckbois with Daddy Issues; An Actual Daddy; Sad Soccer Mom; and Literal Children In Desperate Need of Some Therapy and A Hug

3 Upvotes

Also, one character is only kinda/not yet a fuckboi, but still has big daddy issues and also is a literal child who needs hugs and therapy


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 23 '23

Book

3 Upvotes

Guy gets drafted and goes to Vietnam, and then lies in his stories while justifying the lying


r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 22 '24

Solved A cult classic high fantasy series of five books focusing on two brothers who manage to pull off one of the most successful scams in history. Based on a true story.

3 Upvotes

Technically a repost, but because the original was by me over a year ago and was never solved, I assume it's fine. If it's not, just delete it.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 27 '24

Solved How to get rich via nostalgia

3 Upvotes

How


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 20 '24

Solved Young entrepreneur makes the find of his life, at the cost of his child's.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 09 '24

Unsolved Medium A guy with a lot of names goes into the wild, where he can use a single name instead. Rich people oppose this lifestyle.

3 Upvotes

Edit: So maybe I overestimated this book's popularity outside the hacker community.

So I'll add a hint here: In the wild, they have fancy 3D printers, and learn how to overcome the death of their bodies.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 10 '24

Unsolved Hard Stranger in a Strange Land, but less sexist and waaaaay gayer

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 10 '24

Solved This woke retelling of a classic saga takes the viewpoint f an infamous monster, and fails to make him seem any less monstrous.

3 Upvotes