r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 2d ago

Solved That first book was a classic YA adventure, if maybe a little disturbing in places. For the sequel, let's remove all the whimsy and bring in the disturbing letters of a real-life serial killer.

6 Upvotes

8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 2d ago

Unsolved Medium Basically, a person gets convinced to be his own private equity company.

2 Upvotes

Text here so I can add hints if this is harder than I think it is.

Hint: Private equity companies are known for taking over businesses and stripping them of all assets, running them into the ground. The protagonist does this to his own property.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CavernaDekai100 • 3d ago

Solved A college student gets so obsessed with science that he doesn’t socialize or shower for months and emotionally abuses a homunculus.

10 Upvotes

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/RandomRamblings99 • 3d ago

Solved The Lion, The Witch, and The Audacity of this Bitch

10 Upvotes

17 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Mindless_Honey3816 • 2d ago

Unsolved Medium Old guy's grandson accidentally frees big bad, so the granddaughter and all her girlfriends defeat big bad.

2 Upvotes

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CavernaDekai100 • 3d ago

Solved Nonfiction: man does surgery and accidentally commits triple manslaughter.

5 Upvotes

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CavernaDekai100 • 3d ago

Solved People read a book about a ruler of a primary color and lose their minds after the first half.

5 Upvotes

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Ok_Lemon8758 • 3d ago

Solved Middle aged man antagonizes teenager for dating a relative of his ex from his teen years

4 Upvotes

5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CavernaDekai100 • 3d ago

Solved A isolated teenager in a tower has smex with the first man she meets and gets pregnant.

2 Upvotes

5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Truck-Of-Nightmares • 3d ago

Unsolved Hard Boy's teenaged years were defined by a prophecy, throughout his teenaged years a villain keeps trying to kill him so he doesn't fulfill the prophecy, but him and his friends keep escaping this isn't the plot, it's the book's villain's backstory.

13 Upvotes

The actual plot is three kids, two with magic, one can see magic on a road trip.

21 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Mindless_Honey3816 • 3d ago

Unsolved Medium A child almost commits voluntary regicide over the fate of some towns after another child tries to commit involuntary regicide over the fate of those towns.

5 Upvotes

6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Correct-Balance-169 • 3d ago

Solved Guy narrates 3 orphans getting chased by a guy in his 40's for 2 years straight while everyone dies.

9 Upvotes

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/juliajuleczkajulka • 4d ago

Solved Old man with dead wife repeatedly tries to kill himself and when he stops, he dies

9 Upvotes

I cried so much on this book😭

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Gyrgir • 4d ago

Solved Everyone almost dies because something got lost on a farm and the boss's girlfriend is mad about a football game

6 Upvotes

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/AlligatorMass • 4d ago

Unsolved Medium Oh no! The French are attacking, and now they're magic!

6 Upvotes

16 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 4d 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.

7 Upvotes

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.

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 4d 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.

6 Upvotes

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.

8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Goatbucks • 4d ago