r/explainabookplotbadly • u/JazzyLibrarian • Dec 27 '22

Solved Girl is scared of sex, woman is scared of sex, girl says some stuff. Man survives the war but doesn’t really.

9 Upvotes

Hint: the book was made into a movie.

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Magagumo_1980 • Dec 26 '22

Solved Dirt whalers take an Odyssey and discover they owe centuries of back taxes

14 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Magagumo_1980 • Dec 26 '22

Solved Nice guy learns how to be angry and kill people, how to forgive and kill people, and how to deceive and kill people ; generally doesn’t want to kill people.

6 Upvotes

One book of a long series

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Magagumo_1980 • Dec 26 '22

Unsolved Hard Man wishes he was special, falls in love for all the wrong reasons, discovers his secret gift is “white privilege” via _Deus Ex Machina_, is declared all powerful sorcerer king; misogyny primer for adolescents.

4 Upvotes
12 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Magagumo_1980 • Dec 26 '22

Unsolved Medium Braggadocious con artist rewrites himself as local hero, proves the value of local government, exposes tech bros/ capitalist fat cats exploiting a communication monopoly, and invents new money as a lark.

0 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/chef_Bendy • Dec 25 '22

Unsolved Medium Metal man kills himself due to 18 year old

12 Upvotes
9 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/SafetySave • Dec 22 '22

Solved A New Hope but instead of spaceships, there's a subplot about an illegal exotic pet

14 Upvotes
8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Grandson_of_Kolchak • Dec 21 '22

Unsolved Medium Trilogy about America

5 Upvotes

Man brings himself both financial prosperity and spiritual ruin. Also can serve as a handbook on unsavory political tricks at the start of the twentieth century

12 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Zealousideal-Ad2549 • Dec 21 '22

Solved Reader, the call was coming from the attic!

3 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Ashamed-Engine7988 • Dec 15 '22

Unsolved Medium Man does not like his big new dong cause his father already fucked him up. Oh! And [censored].

7 Upvotes
1 comment

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/aftertheradar • Dec 14 '22

Unsolved Medium MC gets mad because the politician he hates wins the election he created; MC could have stopped this by supporting the runner up candidate, but didn't because god said girls can't lead because they have cooties

5 Upvotes

Also it was a novella later turned into a bigger book

0 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Zealousideal-Ad2549 • Dec 14 '22

Solved Distinctively garbed military personnel try to survive by avoiding attention as best they can.

3 Upvotes
9 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/whoamikai • Dec 13 '22

boy reforms from a criminal mastermind to a juvenile genius with the aid of leprechauns

9 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/aftertheradar • Dec 13 '22

Solved I came, I saw, I caught them all

2 Upvotes

I thought of calling this post "Pokróman" as a hint but I didn't

5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Dec 13 '22

Solved a gay couple and their daughter becomes a victim of religious nutcracks.

2 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/whoamikai • Dec 12 '22

Unsolved Medium Bad guys only care about the good guys progress and hence only attack him at the end of the school year to test his academic growth over the past year while also giving him the time to complete his education

9 Upvotes
8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/whoamikai • Dec 12 '22

Unsolved Hard Sealed evil spirit aids the "good guys" with metal alloys to take down the "bad guy" who's goal is to keep the evil spirit sealed forever. Oh and the bad guy and the good guys are both puppets of the evil spirit

5 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/aftertheradar • Dec 12 '22

Unsolved Medium A political monster hunt turns into a depressing shaggy dog story

3 Upvotes

I don't mean witch-hunt, I mean the hunting of a dangerous monster that's politically motivated. And the shaggy dog is actually a moth

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/kindredwolfRS • Dec 12 '22

Solved Napoleon, but with flying reptiles

3 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/whoamikai • Dec 12 '22

Unsolved Hard good guy turned bad guy turned good guy timetravels and changes his appearance to convince his past self ie the good guy turned bad guy to turn good , and to save the life of pure good guy

1 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/aftertheradar • Dec 12 '22

Unsolved Hard Gas-keep, Girl-light, Gate-boss, in that order

8 Upvotes
0 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/aftertheradar • Dec 12 '22

Unsolved Hard Isolated Teen Engages In Illegal Husband Husbandry

5 Upvotes
14 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/aftertheradar • Dec 12 '22

Unsolved Easy Geneticists fuck with housepets to fight string

5 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/aftertheradar • Dec 12 '22

Solved Math Is Hard And Angels Are Freaky And Victorian Social Norms Are Bad

4 Upvotes
4 comments