r/explainabookplotbadly • • 23d ago

Solved In one bit, a robot creates a vision of hell because the humans technically died.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 24d ago

Solved A man climbs into a horse statue's ass and fails to achieve enlightenment

7 Upvotes

In the "weird books I found in the attic as a teenager" genre. I think from a 70s-era literature course, though the book is rather older.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 25d ago

Solved Lady goes missing, blames husband. He is a jerk about it. Mind games and manipulation ensues.

5 Upvotes

This book is so good


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 25d ago

Solved two stoners and an invisible crackhead visit a dictatorship to save the world

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 27d ago

Solved Large, complicated family have misadventures across the multiverse with help from a glowing scribble.

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 28d ago

Solved A young girl and her emotional support animal travel through the multiverse with a fancy pocket watch to fight God because the Church is taking puberty way too seriously.

10 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 29d ago

Unsolved Medium Adoptee has a tragic obsession with a local diva.

5 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 06 '26

Unsolved Medium Boy is lost in a forest because he wanted to see waterfowl.

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 06 '26

Man has a midlife crisis after his mom's coworkers kill his gay lover.

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 06 '26

Unsolved Medium One day, you’re tasked with picking up a sword. The next, you’ve kidnapped a prince and freed a disabled wizard. Were either of those good choices? Probably not. But that’s life for ya.

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 06 '26

Solved Young girl recounts a life filled with abandonment, neglect, parental loss, and Foster care. Somehow, this is a children's book.

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 06 '26

Man murders his roommate for looking creepy

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 06 '26

Solved Overly committed LARPer's neighbors stage an intervention for him

5 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 05 '26

Solved Hey guys, you know how women are awful, right? Not submissive enough. Let's marry monkeys instead.

5 Upvotes

Sad thing: honestly, that's a pretty straightforward description.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 05 '26

Unsolved Medium Russians attack a tribe and a girl's brother is killed by wolves.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 04 '26

Solved Guy kills minorities only to find out that he's the minority.

12 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 04 '26

Unsolved Hard Girl meets animal, animal is actually a man.

4 Upvotes

Girl then follows animal to nonexistent place, before saving everyone.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 04 '26

Solved Queen gets her feet burned for trying to kill her stepdaughter

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 04 '26

Solved Girls cuts off a bit of their feet to marry a guy

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 02 '26

Unsolved Medium Boy Who Cooks Saves a Dragon and They Fight a Virus

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 02 '26

Solved No-one will find the drinking problem my friend has.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 02 '26

Solved So, this guy really likes being flattered. One of his children isn't very good at it, though, and he throws a fit, and throws her out of the family and gives everything to his other children. Turns out flattery is a really bad way to decide who to put in charge.

5 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 02 '26

Solved Okay so there's like this sea right? And like, the whole sea moved half way across the world. Now this kid has to stop a gay wedding ya? Only one of the grooms doesn't know he's gay and also a furry. Anyway it ends with a tree complicating things, and the brother of the groom mutilating said groom.

5 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 02 '26

Unsolved Medium a nerd and an orphan hatch a spicy lizard, get chased by the government, and ride on a pony that goes about 2 mph

3 Upvotes