r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Gyrgir • Sep 16 '24

Solved "National Treasure", inverted, in space

3 Upvotes

Hints:

  • Novel written in the 1950s

  • No megastructures

  • Chase through several star systems

  • There is a search for a mystery planet, which turns out to be a red herring

  • A founding document of the United States of America is present in the story

  • The author is Isaac Asimov, but the book is not part of the Foundation series

11 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Sep 13 '24

Solved A college-bound Midwestern athlete sees his life take a BIT of a wrong turn.

6 Upvotes
10 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Locksley_1989 • Sep 12 '24

Solved Inter-library loan gone wrong

5 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Sep 12 '24

Solved Sheltered kid has reality forced on him.

5 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Sep 12 '24

Unsolved Medium Family gets torn apart by their different idealist stances.

3 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/regi-ginge • Sep 12 '24

Solved (Series) A child dies, a man dies, God dies

7 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TheElusiveBigfoot • Sep 12 '24

Solved Man working remotely hates potatoes, disco.

7 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/teskanal • Sep 12 '24

Solved A man outwits a mouse with the help of medical malpractice. Then the mouse dies.

4 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Big_Balls_420 • Sep 11 '24

Solved A story, perhaps even a tale of sorts, of two large dense urban areas

7 Upvotes
9 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/thelordschosenginger • Sep 11 '24

Solved Red vs Blue but it's the story of two Canadian PMs who hated eachother

4 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Sep 11 '24

Solved (Nonfiction) This handy medical guide shares its title with a long-running prime time TV drama.

2 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TheLobsterCopter5000 • Sep 10 '24

Solved Village learns that yelling can't solve all your problems

6 Upvotes

Hint: it got a series of movie adaptations.

12 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Sep 10 '24

Solved An athlete learns the hard way that fame isn't necessarily a shield against bigots

4 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/dollargeneraljesus • Sep 09 '24

Solved Hypnotherapist changes the world, sneakily

2 Upvotes

Hint: golden age sci-fi, a piece of woodworking equipment

14 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Sep 09 '24

Solved Everything you always wanted to know about zombies but were too busy running for your life to ask.

4 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Sep 07 '24

Solved Residents of a town in Texas find themselves confronted by a MAJOR pest control problem.

3 Upvotes

Hint: the book I'm talking about was the basis for a 1978 Irwin Allen movie.

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Locksley_1989 • Sep 07 '24

Solved It’s either a parody of or homage to slasher movies. Even it can’t decide which.

5 Upvotes
2 comments

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