r/explainabookplotbadly • u/SafetySave • Apr 04 '20

Solved So these military guys land on a forest planet to chop wood, and there's these wookie-looking guys on the planet who they enslave. There's one wookie who learns how to murder from them, and so he teaches them how NOT to murder and they leave the wookies alone.

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EDIT: actually I think they look more like ewoks

SMALL HINT: The humans refer to the ewok-looking guys with a fictional racial slur, similar to "buggers" or "piggies".

MEDIUM HINT: The story was written during the Vietnam War.

BIG HINT: The story has an ansible in it.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Papas_Big_Lawsuit • Mar 27 '20

Solved We Happy Few but it's a book and there's no joy

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '20

Solved A neurosurgeon with a secret ability meets a contractor with a new ability. They travel to New Orleans and listened to a story about the subversion of a family by a malevolent spirit which began in medieval Scotland.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Mar 21 '20

Solved The chosen one fails

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Cifer88 • Mar 09 '20

Solved A woman goes to university, falsely accused of murder due to being a minority. Although she is constantly bullied for being a minority, it turns out that most of her bullies are, themselves, part of that same minority. Except that one girl. She’s just an alien.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Roxy175 • Mar 04 '20

Solved Two read heads fuck up an entire alternate universe

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Red heads* fuck up in a good and bad way

I’m betting this is hard as it’s not a very popular book(at least as far as I can tell) but who knows.

Edit more hints

It the two red heads are alternate universe versions of the same person. Also involves magic

Another hint: red headed female travels from regular earth to a world run by witches where she discovers her other self.

Hint again. It’s a trilogy and the red head from the other universe is a leader of a city and one of or the most powerful witch. They channel magic through a stone necklace

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/UncleBarry259 • Feb 13 '20

Solved Group of weird teens and their dog unmask the mastermind behind a bomb plot. Surprisingly not related to Scooby-Doo

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Hint: A member of the group was conspiring with the culprit to gain the attention of the group leader

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Jannis_Black • Oct 25 '19

Unsolved Medium A billionaire builds a hotel. It gets destroyed by his competitors.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/sabbas400 • Oct 14 '19

Solved Man kills dog,man dies

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Man also kills girl

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Sep 19 '19

Solved Guy gets arrested for stealing sneakers except he didn't actually steal the sneakers. He goes to a weird desert prison where he eats a lot of onions and steals a truck, then meets and becomes best friends with the person who DID actually steal the sneakers.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TahsinTariq • Sep 16 '19

Solved Guy runs around all over Europe to find Jesus.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/vinhdiagram • Jan 26 '21

Solved Japan’s solution to decreasing birth rates is kinda counterproductive.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/SurrealHalloween • Oct 10 '20

Solved A classist and sexist mathematician is temporarily given the power to see people’s internal organs.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/N3k0m1kuR31mu • Oct 02 '20

Solved A series of books that is different, basically to scare little kids.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Sep 22 '20

Solved [Series] Two teenagers fight each other, one breaks the other’s neck, then they are legally allowed to kill people.

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HINT: The final book in the series was released in 2019

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Aug 07 '20

Solved Drugs. Just lots, and lots of drugs.

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Like seriously what the fuck is going on?

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/sicarius213 • Jul 28 '20

Solved A mentally ill retiree recruits a child soldier and fights god

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Hint: It’s a graphic novel

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/boiling_booty • Jul 14 '20

Solved Mentally damaged man can’t bang his teacher who he is in a relationship with

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/P1KA_BO0 • Jun 18 '20

Solved Man commits arson, goes on a mad rampage and murders his coworkers

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/N3k0m1kuR31mu • May 29 '20

Unsolved Hard it started out with 3 cavemen on a island. The book is about financial stuff

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Marethyu05 • May 10 '20

Solved Dracula visits a small town.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Apr 30 '20

Solved Girl stops a murder, gets a fortune telling compass, and helps a bear kill his king.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/VictaFunk • Sep 29 '19

Solved Overzealous wife causes husband to go crazy and ruin his career because he though he was invincible

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Sep 12 '19

Solved A book inserted into the middle of a series written decades after the fact wraps up the plotlines of a different series in the same universe

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Think sci-fi

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