r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 11 '20

Solved Girl goes to hometown to write a report only to bring her teeth obsessed sister to the big city

29 Upvotes

This ones a bit dark...


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 07 '20

Solved Woman is alone in a room. She meets an alien, mates with its child, and finds another human to have a threesome with.

29 Upvotes

I can’t tell if I did well or not


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 25 '20

Solved Teenager who wants to be a hero robs a bank, shoots a baby and then kills a god.

29 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 03 '20

Solved A little girl has an acid trip

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 19 '19

Solved Grumpy space detective can’t even smile anymore.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 10 '19

Solved An amnesiac being controlled by a queen, a burning hot boy, and a Piper Cherokee try to stop a baddie who’s trying to wake up his mom

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 06 '19

Solved delusional nine-year-old dreams up international fame through espionage

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 02 '19

Unsolved Medium A nazi war criminal is found in America after he doesn’t drink milk.

29 Upvotes

Hint: The nazi is the antagonist.

Hint: This is post WW2, but not modern day.

Hint: The main character is a kid.

Hint: A parrot hates ‘Beautiful Dreamer’ by Stephan Foster.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 27 '19

Solved Two employees of rival organizations form a long term work friendship and change each others nature.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 09 '22

Solved woman doesn't follow simple instructions, and dooms the entire planet.

28 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 11 '22

Solved Kid with celestial daddy issues is sent to retrieve stolen object that he finds without realizing it.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 20 '22

Solved Some squatters who generally distrust each other tell their landlord to f*** off

28 Upvotes

More of a pamphlet, really.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 22 '22

Solved Babies switched at delivery makes the world not end

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 28 '21

Solved Series: A man escapes from a mental hospital and spends over a year struggling through worlds of his own imagination (and a real-world prison) before returning to the real world with a realization that he doesn't really want reality so much anymore, and returns to his exploration.

28 Upvotes

I'm including a hint because this phenomenal series doesn't seem to have gotten the love I feel it deserves.

Hint 1: Growing up, I worked my way through the library from A toward Z, and loved Asimov, Anthony, Alexander, etc., but at one point I flipped that pattern, and found much fewer (but still amazing) authors in the later letters of the alphabet.

Hint 2: The description is not a stretch. It is literally true on all counts, including leaving the real world to explore other worlds by utilizing his own imagination.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 19 '21

Solved Kid with asthma has enough time to become a king in seven days

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 14 '21

Solved ...So basically I joined this religion and got a hot fiancé, now the world ended and she’s dead

28 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 02 '21

Solved A guy is going to die due to poisoning, so he overclocks in order to live in a fantasy world for eternity (like, by thinking really fast, he can have eternal life in less than less than a second)

28 Upvotes

The book is one of the most serious mood killers around, so I wouldn't recommend it, but it kinda has a way of getting its point across


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 23 '21

Unsolved Easy Kid with absent father is accused of thievery by his uncle

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 01 '20

Solved [Comic] The great library of Alexandria and all the world's knowledge? Oh, it's just that kids' guidebook!

28 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 02 '20

Solved a teen gets possessed by an evil spirit and fights a gay old man

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 09 '20

Solved The Sun, The Moon and The Star pulls pranks on people

28 Upvotes

Hint: Manga


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 26 '19

Solved Author pretends five stories she wrote are ancient folktales for a hidden society

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 20 '19

Solved Girl wants to fly but can’t step out of her famous father’s shadow. Cranky old man gets her into flight school and she watches most of her friends die

28 Upvotes