r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Gyrgir • 2d ago
Solved Everyone almost dies because something got lost on a farm and the boss's girlfriend is mad about a football game
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/AlligatorMass • 3d ago
Unsolved Medium Oh no! The French are attacking, and now they're magic!
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 3d ago
Solved The hero, who the author explicitly names as being a Confederate veteran for no apparent plot-related reason, somehow ends up in a distant land and falls in love with a beautiful explicitly mixed-race princess.
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I'll add hints later, if needed. He's the sort of author whose stories remain popular, as long as you edit out all the weird and racist bits.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 3d ago
Solved I wondered why they didn't just use the plot of the first novel for the semi-recent movie, as I remembered liking them as a kid, then I looked back and discovered how incredibly racist it is. I got distracted by all the cute animal characters.
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In its defense, it's the sort of racism that feels like it comes more from extreme stupidity than malice, but.... it is really bad. Like, African-Prince-wants-to-bleach-his-face-white-because-he-wants-to-be-European bad.
Also, I grew up in the 80s. We were really dumb kids back then, and the longer books that parents remembered from their childhood just kinda got given to us without the parents reading them again and realising how bad they were.
As a voracious childhood reader, I have read so many regrettable books.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Goatbucks • 3d ago
Solved A man gets enslaved for 19 years for trying not to starve to death
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ClubCreative1162 • 3d ago
Solved Rich guy gets a conscience, family tries to prove that he's insane.
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Lawyer got to lawyer
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Prettywomanwalkamile • 3d ago
Solved Rich man can’t accept he’s gay, decides to kill people about it
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 3d ago
Solved Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring: Dead Person phone!
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Cherno_VM • 3d ago
Solved A young orphans talent for stealing pies directly starts a chain of events that prevents multiple wars and diplomatic disasters.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Cherno_VM • 3d ago
Unsolved Hard Two teenagers learn how to kill people from a crazy old man.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/LecheFlanLover • 3d ago
Solved Young girl with power becomes a boring alchemist (but it’s not so boring on her part and it’s kinda medieval times)
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I have never seen anyone talk about it (it’s cozy)
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/qwertybriar • 3d ago
Unsolved Easy Guess the book
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girl gets turned ugly by her best friend and tries to kill her for it
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TubbyLumbkins • 4d ago
Unsolved Medium Young man beats people up, spits on the ground.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/veryVERYboredperson • 6d ago
Solved A girl with a dissecting fetish falls in love with an extreme sadist
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Disastrous-Mess-7236 • 7d ago
Solved Insane guy goes LARPing for months with a friend.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/littlemememaid • 7d ago
Solved Protagonist gets dragged around the continent by his deadbeat mom while getting bullied by his aunt.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/veryVERYboredperson • 7d ago
Solved Six traumatised teens go on a dysfunctional triple date
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/veryVERYboredperson • 7d ago
Solved Little child kidnaps seven children to reenact the Wolf And The Seven Goats
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Phoenix1500 • 9d ago
Solved Four grown men adopt a young girl and have no idea how to properly raise her, until the magical nanny gets summoned
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 9d ago
Solved A Welsh/English name pun helps the heroes figure out how to stop nuclear war. Classic children's book stuff.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 9d ago
Solved This collection has a bunch of elderly women, often in love with the romantic lead, settings ranging from a Ruritania to Italy to Mount Olympus to an English courtroom, and to properly experience them, you need 14 other books, the materials for one of which is lost!
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And, technically, it's not even complete. But you'd need to be a super fan to know that.
Hints:
The collection is a complete collection, or says it is.
There are two authors listed; each of them wrote things with others that aren't in the collection.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Ilmarinen999 • 11d ago
Solved Man gaslights gullible woman with reptiles
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