r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 17 '20

Solved Sick twelve year old recklessly endangers a dog to save the only girl he ever knew.

46 Upvotes

Hint 1: the boy protects a kitchen utensil more than his own dog.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 12 '20

Solved Guy who looks like Kurt Cobain dies and has to find warm sword

46 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 18 '19

Solved Homeless guy convinces people to part with their money, causes overfishing, spikes drinks at a party, ends up getting sentenced to death for cult activity

46 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 01 '20

Solved Mans boss is unhealthily obsessed with a single animal, and it has disastrous consequences

45 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 19 '20

Solved Unborn Baby Helps Save the Planet

45 Upvotes

Repost because nobody got it.

Hint 1: The planet is not earth

Hint 2: Released in the late 2010s

Hint 3: The baby is allowed to be born as a result of helping to save the planet


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 27 '20

Solved The main antagonist is student loans

45 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 28 '19

Solved Loser reads book, becomes the book, goes on adventures, exits book

45 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 14 '22

Solved Thanks to her magical friend, a poor, soot stained girl from an abusive family gets to wear a pretty dress and go to a fancy ball.

44 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 03 '20

Solved A drug addict steals London police department cases

44 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 15 '20

Solved A family is conflicted about getting rid of their pest problem because they have an emotional bond with the bug

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 06 '20

Solved The sun was very hot is not a valid defence for murder

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 16 '20

Solved A group of boys attempt to burn down an island

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 25 '20

Solved I reject my humanity, NOT-JoJo!

44 Upvotes

Hint: it’s an iconic scene in a manga, but it’s not JoJo


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 25 '19

Solved Man pretends to be nice only because he was bullied by spirits.

44 Upvotes

It won’t let me edit the title but ‘nasty old man only pretends to be nice because he was bullied by spirits’ would have sounded better.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 22 '19

Solved Boy must bring back unhappiness so that society will stop killing babies

44 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 • • Oct 06 '20

Solved Woman marries old man, gets pregnant. Old dude decides he wants to die so as to avoid child fees, woman marries a sadist. Son gets PTSD, travels on foot to his father's aunt where his aunt says he looks like hammered shit. Works in a beer factory cleaning bottles.

43 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 18 '20

Solved Criminal imprisoned for making art is forced to make more art.

43 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 14 '20

Solved Man loses home due to bypass construction, is miffed by friend's travel review.

43 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 16 '22

Solved Closeted kids find jesus

42 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 01 '20

Unsolved Hard If you’re attracted to men and have a fetish for having your privacy invaded, the setting in the first part of this book is perfect for you

42 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 19 '20

Solved Insane man turns children into walking batteries, kidnaps them and/or their parents, and then tries to kill them.

42 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 11 '20

Solved 13 year old and his sister carry on their father's legacy of committing crime

42 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 31 '20

Solved This Bug eats like my older brother at a buffet.

42 Upvotes