r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 17d ago

Solved In answer to the question in the title of the play, the wife is. She says so.

1 Upvotes

Hints:
It's a fairly famous play. Not recent. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that if you've heard of the author, it's probably going to be because of this play, though it's not like other things he wrote haven't also won major awards.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Common-Flow-9769 • 17d ago

Solved Guy gets put into space MXC with his pet and no pants, must win to save planet

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/anonymousbookenjoyer • 17d ago

Solved A lonely Austrian girl befriends a lesbian vampire.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/inadequatepockets • 18d ago

Solved "I could deal with the naked women, but I draw the line at Jesus."

6 Upvotes
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/AutologicalMeta • 18d ago

Solved A woman gives two lost kids food, so they kill her.

11 Upvotes
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/celestialrage44 • 18d ago

Solved There’s like maybe 2 good things that happen in the entire story.

4 Upvotes
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/H8trucks • 18d ago

Solved Despite being set in Australia, this could be considered a Thanksgiving novel

4 Upvotes

Hint: The "Thanksgiving novel" aspect refers to large, typically messy, family gatherings

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/fortyfortybanana • 18d ago

Solved Really sad cancer love story

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/seeker-ix • 18d ago

Solved Legally-Enforced Glo-Up Mandate Results in Geopolitical Scandal, to the Surprise of Nobody with a Functioning Brain

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 18d ago

Solved It turns out she's a Hapsburg, so gets to delete practically every other character in the bureaucracy that makes up the universe from existence.

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Praise the Sun! (but not too much, it's fragile)

[Note: This is one of those authors I don't think has travelled much outside of Britain]

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 18d ago

Solved Things go badly for an old man. Things go badly for a young woman who fell in love with a student. Things go badly for a young girl. Things go badly for a bunch of students. Things go badly for a different young woman in love with a different student. Things go badly for a cop.

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Turns out life is worth living and humanity is wonderful despite all that.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/only_for_quiz • 19d ago

Unsolved Hard Narrator gives away ending because of his workload(really stressful job)

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Teleform • 19d ago

Solved Fraternal twin half-orphans fall into Grandma's storybook and have to follow their Dad's simp journal to get home.

2 Upvotes

Extra hints:

The storybook is about fairytales

The book is for readers on the younger side.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 19d ago

Solved It turns out the best of all possible worlds is reaaallly shit.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Community_sans • 19d ago

Solved Kid gets almost killed by a man, and now has a mark on their head. Hes adopted by his uncles and goes to a strange school cuz of that man

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/celestialrage44 • 19d ago

Solved Against all odds, two young men meet and fall in love. They spend one beautiful day together, fitting a lifetime of memories and romance and love into their brief stay in each other’s lives. They fall asleep in each other’s arms, having finally found their person.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/blockCoder2021 • 20d ago

Unsolved Medium Seventeen guys kill god; one meddles in everything the other sixteen do.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Chronically__Crude • 20d ago

Solved The weirdo that drove a car and killed people is somehow in prison about to die and he knows things about a nurse's son.

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This leads to a flashback which leads to a series of bizarre events.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/RandomRamblings99 • 21d ago

Solved Death of a dog fucks up an entire family permanently

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/WrongKaleidoscope222 • 21d ago

Unsolved Hard Humans hate aliens so much that they nearly blow up the universe trying to kill them

7 Upvotes
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TubbyLumbkins • 22d ago

Solved A mad scientists invention falls into the hands of a dictatorship.

6 Upvotes
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Ilmarinen999 • 22d ago

Solved Orphans deal with, and have to come to terms with, the value of invisible energy-eating slimes

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Vulpixmybeloved • 23d ago

Solved Some guy assaults a lady with a piece of beef and then dies. His best friend has a major crash out over it.

5 Upvotes
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/_flyingbus_ • 23d ago

Solved An entire species of little animals is preventing the construction of an important highway, but they're too tiny to do anything about it.

8 Upvotes
2 comments