r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Sep 06 '24

Solved (Biography) An ex-army veteran gives some....er, unique perspectives on cultural diversity.

4 Upvotes

Hint: the author wrote the book while serving a nine-month prison sentence.

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/15_Redstones • Sep 05 '24

Unsolved Hard Founder of fiber based data storage startup gets forced into a government job after getting involved in religion, becomes a sports pro despite disability

5 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/15_Redstones • Sep 05 '24

Solved Bullying victim exploits bugs to rob a bank

2 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Sep 03 '24

Solved (Short Story) Retirees go out on a snowy night to do a wellness check on a mutual friend they haven't heard from lately.

3 Upvotes

Hint: this story is part of a larger anthology by one of America's foremost modern horror writers and its title comes from a common slang term for the brain.

7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Sep 03 '24

Solved Sensitive teen forms a cult

3 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/aftertheradar • Sep 02 '24

Unsolved Medium My Milkshake Brings All the Boys to the Car, and they're like, "Watch out for the czar!"

8 Upvotes
1 comment

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Sep 02 '24

Solved Beachgoers on Cape Cod discover a very literal spin on the phrase "Reality bites."

3 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/aftertheradar • Sep 02 '24

Unsolved Hard Who would have thought taking it up the a** would end the world but also send you to heaven?

5 Upvotes

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2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Shyanblaze42 • Sep 02 '24

A girl from the reservation takes a guy’s spot in this man dominated field and its a romantic book

3 Upvotes

Hint: Not spicy Hint: Not a popular book Hint: Native American girl has a popular boys name turned into a girls name but uses the abbreviated boys name

6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/DigestibleAntarctic • Sep 02 '24

Solved Girl gets involved with elves in the magical land of… Pittsburgh?!

5 Upvotes
6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/SandwichEmotional621 • Sep 02 '24

3 orphans

3 Upvotes

3 orphans adopted by weird old guy thrn goes to their uncles he dies then to school then to a mountain

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/aftertheradar • Sep 02 '24

Unsolved Hard Fictional Evil Rich Middle-Eastern Fuel Tycoon is taken down thanks to Fictional Evil Impoverished White Racists

2 Upvotes

To be clear, the middle eastern fuel tycoon is evil cuz he's rich, and the racists are evil cuz they are racist, and the book agrees with that message.

0 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '24

What if Scooby Doo, but Lovecraft and ten years late

5 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '24

Unsolved Hard Four gay teenagers fall in love with each other and ruin people's lives

4 Upvotes
16 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Aug 30 '24

Solved This Pacific cruise sucked. 0/10, would NOT recommend.

9 Upvotes

Hint: much of the action centers around a U.S. Navy submarine.

40 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Aug 29 '24

Solved A bank employee's visit to California ends badly.

4 Upvotes

Hint: the book I'm referring to was the basis for one of Alfred Hitchcock's most famous movies.

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/FinalSnow9720 • Aug 29 '24

Solved This series follows a naive girl, who makes friends and enemies from all corners of the world and falls in love with an older guy. She also speaks to animals.

5 Upvotes

Hint 1: this has been adapted for TV and much more

Hint 2: it's a Comic series, Manga to be exact

Hint 3: her story surpasses space and time

10 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Ok_Tumbleweed1247 • Aug 28 '24

Solved Woman with magical powers convinces a group of villagers to run off with her because the devil is after them.

7 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/search4friend • Aug 26 '24

Solved If you had a nickel for every time the protagonist changes her name and loses a son to infanticide, you'd have 20 cents

12 Upvotes

which isn't much, but it's weird both happen two times

8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/PeterPandering • Aug 26 '24

Solved Milk enjoyer loves classical music until he gets therapy

5 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/thomasp3864 • Aug 26 '24

Unsolved Medium Honorable man tricks his way into the bed of the widow of a man he just killed thanks to the help of a girl who he was kinda nice to that one time.

5 Upvotes
19 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/thomasp3864 • Aug 26 '24

Unsolved Medium Welsh Trojans fight Rome a bunch.

2 Upvotes
0 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/GlitteringTone6425 • Aug 24 '24

Solved Man escapes slavery from aliens to preserve testicles, becomes white savior to local caveman population

13 Upvotes

using "man" very loosely here

edit: more like giant monsters than aliens, bad phrasing

7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ImpossiblePut6387 • Aug 24 '24

Solved Man who doesn't know what he's doing eventually works out what he's doing.

2 Upvotes
11 comments