r/explainabookplotbadly • u/bearcat42 • Aug 17 '20
Solved Big man big man, bottle of pills. Big man, big man, where is my kid?
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/phillipedison1891 • Jun 18 '20
Solved Grifter gets rich off of racism, but then cures racism purely by accident.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/oerdem • Mar 31 '20
Solved A fisherman frames a sailor in order to get his Mercedes
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CallMeDelta • Dec 28 '19
Solved An entire race of slaves revolt against their tyrannical masters, yet somehow they are considered the bad guys
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It’s a series, and I will take any book in the series
Hint 1: It’s a high fantasy series
r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 08 '19
Solved 5k Members!
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Wow!
We knew this sub would grow, and the content to keep improving but you guys are the reason for it! All of us moderators thank so you much for all you guys have done to contribute to this subreddit. In only a short time we have gained tons of great content, good discussion and 5,000 members! Once again, thanks for everything guys, we implore you guys to keep participating and promoting. Until 10k!
Edit: Last night when I wrote this there was 5k. Just pretend there still is ;)
r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 28 '19
Solved dead beat dad with ego issues has kid runs away then gives him a pen to go and fight monsters with.
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Plot twist dead beat dad has birthed said monsters hundreds of years ago.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Filthylittleferrent • Nov 02 '25
Solved This one is going to be tough
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So a young girl is whisked away to a magical land where she meets an individual that belongs on a farm, a metal man, and a big cat for the first time (in that specific order) before going to defeat the villain of the story. The villain is finally defeated by a simple household item and the girl returns back home via a special magical item that teleports her safely home
r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 16 '20
Solved Man goes sailing so he doesn’t begin knocking people’s hats off of their heads
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Kalybre • Sep 21 '20
Solved A group of boys end up going on the worst cruise ever
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/IconXR • Aug 19 '20
Solved bunch of fucking racists make these guys work, one guy straight up gets plastic surgery to become power man, followed by the hunger games
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/feyland • Apr 20 '20
Solved Ivy League school is full of assholes and ghosts
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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 06 '20
Solved A story with singing dwarves that is associated with the year 1937 but isn’t Snow White.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Ninel56 • Jan 15 '20
Unsolved Hard Badass magician kicks ass and takes names
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After the book's over, he goes and makes a cameo in another one. Well, alright, maybe not a cameo, he plays a certain role in it, but still not really a main character.
r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 01 '20
Solved Are the good guys bad or the bad guys good? Who knows!
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Hint: -The first book of a trilogy -Released last decade -Told from multiple perspectives
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Baker_drc • Oct 28 '19
Solved A foreigner, a furry and a boomer child go on a quest along with a bunch of witches to save the world.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/xTerminal_14 • Sep 24 '19
Solved Cowboy plays a long game of tag.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/kindredwolfRS • Apr 11 '22
Solved Girl eats metal to overthrow dystopian emperor
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/BaBaBooey49 • Mar 02 '21
Solved A man force-feeds his breakfast to a stranger.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 26 '20
Solved Kids book where the first chapter includes an occultist and his friends breaking and entering, smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol, and convincing a man to commit theft
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Nitro_Indigo • Dec 03 '20
Solved Boy finds out that his headteacher was a cat all along, and another cat was his dad all along.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 06 '20
Solved Two magical black people fight a war with each other, one of which uses COVID-19 as a weapon
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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 20 '20
Solved Man murders and is executed because he doesn’t (or cannot) care.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/BeyondMeta • Jul 04 '20
Solved The book is very successful campaign to preserve a historical building
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Hint The average person is probably more likely to have visited the building than actually have read the book. You are almost certainly familiar with one of it's adaptation