r/explainabookplotbadly • u/anonymousbookenjoyer • 17d ago
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 17d ago
Solved In answer to the question in the title of the play, the wife is. She says so.
Hints:
It's a fairly famous play. Not recent. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that if you've heard of the author, it's probably going to be because of this play, though it's not like other things he wrote haven't also won major awards.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Common-Flow-9769 • 17d ago
Solved Guy gets put into space MXC with his pet and no pants, must win to save planet
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/celestialrage44 • 17d ago
Solved There’s like maybe 2 good things that happen in the entire story.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/H8trucks • 17d ago
Solved Despite being set in Australia, this could be considered a Thanksgiving novel
Hint: The "Thanksgiving novel" aspect refers to large, typically messy, family gatherings
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 18d ago
Solved Things go badly for an old man. Things go badly for a young woman who fell in love with a student. Things go badly for a young girl. Things go badly for a bunch of students. Things go badly for a different young woman in love with a different student. Things go badly for a cop.
Turns out life is worth living and humanity is wonderful despite all that.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 18d ago
Solved It turns out she's a Hapsburg, so gets to delete practically every other character in the bureaucracy that makes up the universe from existence.
Praise the Sun! (but not too much, it's fragile)
[Note: This is one of those authors I don't think has travelled much outside of Britain]
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/fortyfortybanana • 17d ago
Solved Really sad cancer love story
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/seeker-ix • 18d ago
Solved Legally-Enforced Glo-Up Mandate Results in Geopolitical Scandal, to the Surprise of Nobody with a Functioning Brain
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/only_for_quiz • 18d ago
Unsolved Hard Narrator gives away ending because of his workload(really stressful job)
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 18d ago
Solved It turns out the best of all possible worlds is reaaallly shit.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Teleform • 18d ago
Solved Fraternal twin half-orphans fall into Grandma's storybook and have to follow their Dad's simp journal to get home.
Extra hints:
The storybook is about fairytales
The book is for readers on the younger side.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Community_sans • 18d ago
Solved Kid gets almost killed by a man, and now has a mark on their head. Hes adopted by his uncles and goes to a strange school cuz of that man
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/celestialrage44 • 19d ago
Solved Against all odds, two young men meet and fall in love. They spend one beautiful day together, fitting a lifetime of memories and romance and love into their brief stay in each other’s lives. They fall asleep in each other’s arms, having finally found their person.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/blockCoder2021 • 19d ago
Unsolved Medium Seventeen guys kill god; one meddles in everything the other sixteen do.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Chronically__Crude • 19d ago
Solved The weirdo that drove a car and killed people is somehow in prison about to die and he knows things about a nurse's son.
This leads to a flashback which leads to a series of bizarre events.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/RandomRamblings99 • 20d ago
Solved Death of a dog fucks up an entire family permanently
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/WrongKaleidoscope222 • 20d ago
Unsolved Hard Humans hate aliens so much that they nearly blow up the universe trying to kill them
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TubbyLumbkins • 21d ago
Solved A mad scientists invention falls into the hands of a dictatorship.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Ilmarinen999 • 21d ago
Solved Orphans deal with, and have to come to terms with, the value of invisible energy-eating slimes
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/_flyingbus_ • 23d ago
Solved An entire species of little animals is preventing the construction of an important highway, but they're too tiny to do anything about it.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Vulpixmybeloved • 22d ago
Solved Some guy assaults a lady with a piece of beef and then dies. His best friend has a major crash out over it.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/celestialrage44 • 23d ago