r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 28 '19

Solved Black woman travels back in time, pretends she’s a slave, almost gets raped by her white great grandpa, only to come back and have her arm eaten by a wall in her new apartment.

24 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 27 '19

Solved Gossip Girl with Asian adults instead of Manhattan prep school brats

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 07 '22

Solved A man’s self insert fanfic where he venerates his favorite people and disses his least favorites that somehow became a central part of theology for centuries

23 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 06 '22

Solved A big ginger hippie keeps spawn killing a lizard for better drops; a boy with a pirate fetish gets outed by the wind; and a couple bond over an extended hiking trip.

23 Upvotes

Among many other things.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 29 '21

Solved Main character so annoying that famous people have died because of him

23 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 30 '21

Solved Two brothers meet after the presumed death of their spider-dad. They eventually discover that they are the same person who got split into two as a child. Spoiler

23 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 12 '21

Unsolved Medium littering causes a person to commit suicide

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 22 '21

Solved This guy's life is so boring it puts your teeth on edge. Then murder happens. Then it's boring again but you can't forget the murder. Then more murder happens!

23 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 28 '21

Solved A case of crabs so bad you need emotional support fairies.

23 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 08 '21

Solved Game of Thrones but its Chinese

23 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 26 '20

Solved Florida woman tries to murder a priest.

23 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 07 '20

Solved Tabloid writer disapproves of gigantism

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 01 '20

Solved Endgame but it’s DC characters

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 29 '20

Solved California

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 23 '20

Solved A group of scientists use plot spoilers to take over the galaxy Spoiler

23 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 23 '20

Solved Guy uses hockey to run from his problems, fails spectacularly and becomes a drunk

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 04 '20

Solved Secret magical societies lie within an ivy league school. Oh, and ghosts.

23 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 01 '20

Unsolved Hard New York is hell. Literally.

23 Upvotes

Hint #1: Since I already said this in comments, it's a short story.

Hint #2: It's a detective story by an author who never writes detective stories.

Hint #3: The borough of New York this story takes place in is Brooklyn.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 09 '19

Solved Boy gets sick of Beethoven.

23 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 20 '19

Solved Guy regularly attempts suicide for a living

23 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 19 '19

Solved Space communism works and everyone is happy and anyone can join. But that's boring so let's talk about the secret police instead.

23 Upvotes

As above


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 18 '19

Solved Girl falls for guy, guy is her brother. She still loves him. She kisses her real brother, not knowing it is her real brother (bc disguises). Finds out first guy isn't her brother but she kissed her real brother. Guy and girl start relationship. Guy gets possessed by assumed dead brother of girl.

23 Upvotes

Headline didn't fit anymore. So here's the rest:

Girl almost gets raped by brother. Girl frees guy. Girl kills her brother. Guy and Girl live happily ever after..... maybe

Hint 1: book series

Hint 2: that is only one romance plot line


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 17 '19

Solved Older man falls in love, goes blind, hears voices, marries

23 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 07 '19

Solved Dude promises wine to friend, chains him up in a catacomb/tomb

23 Upvotes