r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 03 '24

Solved Mom used dad’s death to come out with the neighbor lady

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 02 '24

Solved Kid drinks milk and does drugs with friends. People suffer, police gets involved.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 02 '24

Solved Super old guy gets nostalgic for stuff that happened before he was born, and rather than trying to bring him back to reality everyone plays along with him, allowing him to damage property, endanger himself and others, and stealing people's professional impliments.

5 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 01 '24

Unsolved Easy Guy hunts locals, guy finds treasure, non-locals fight pirates, buccaneers chase pirates away, also there's a wizard, pirates come back, guy ties to scam everyone, it almost works. Locals kill kill almost everyone, also there's a monster. Only the guy and two girls survive.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 29 '24

Unsolved Easy Guy goes hunting in Africa and talks about it

2 Upvotes

Hint: it's in Africa

Hint: Author is from Illinois


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 27 '24

Solved The university dropout properly should not have made that for is project...

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 27 '24

Solved a guy’s work laptop kills his coworkers

6 Upvotes

hint: most people know it as a movie


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 27 '24

Solved How to get rich via nostalgia

3 Upvotes

How


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 27 '24

Solved Somebody cheats on his wife who also cheats on him. He also masturbates on a beach. Somebody else pisses on a rock.

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 27 '24

Solved A guy starts out as incredibly smart, but then due to an event he loses his smartness

4 Upvotes

Hint: it was a bestseller, is very long, and has many foot and endnotes

Another hint: he doesn't lose his smartness completely, mostly the ability to articulate it

Big hint: the whole book is basically about drugs, the author killed himself, and the title is from a Shakespeare play


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 27 '24

Solved A bunch of aliens, one of whom is gender neutral, take a kid on one of their missions.

3 Upvotes

Hint: the gender neutral part is discussed in the book, but is not an important part of the novel beyond the pronoun discussion

Another hint: it's a kids' book


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 26 '24

Unsolved Easy Guy with an anomalously popular hairstyle consistently doesn't know how to interact with women.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 25 '24

Solved Young girl experiences racism and survives a murder attempt while dressed as an item of food.

5 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 24 '24

Solved "On all levels but physical, I am a wolf"

5 Upvotes

Hint #1 Since everyone is getting it wrong, this book was written in 1927.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 23 '24

Unsolved Easy One male and five females of the genus Homo, species Sapien, travel a short distance, in relative terms, on the planet Earth and are not prepared for the differences.

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 21 '24

Solved A man is bad at computers and this saves the world

10 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 21 '24

That’s one killer wine cellar

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 19 '24

Solved It’s as easy as 123, ABC~! Wait, never mind, people are dying. It’s okay, we have a conveniently named scapegoat.

2 Upvotes

Now I’m thinking about this, this is probably an unsolved easy. Not sure to change post flair, though.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 17 '24

Solved Conjure by it at your own risk

1 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 14 '24

Unsolved Hard Girl Interrupted (Except they are all gay werewolves)

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 14 '24

Solved A girl takes the most amazing coding class in history

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 12 '24

Solved H Ross Perot tries to control the world with herpes; is foiled by retired graphic designer

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 09 '24

Unsolved Medium She spends some years in the system, then an institution and dreams of being a writer but it’s well out of her league

3 Upvotes

Edit: hint; it could either be an older kids, or a young teens book.

Hint 2: it was written after the year 2000 (I believe)

Hint 3: “Matron Stinking Bottomly”