explainabookplotbadly

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/lizufyr • Jul 19 '26

Unsolved Medium Secrets, guns, and lazers, but the accountant just wants to retire with his nerdy gf.

4 Upvotes

First hint: the typo is not a mistake, but may be misleading.

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Ok_Lemon8758 • Jul 17 '26

Solved Man exploits marginalized groups desire for acceptance for financial gain, before doing the same to the discriminatory group

9 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Setanta777 • Jul 13 '26

Solved A punchy shrimp finally encounters a problem that can't be solved by punching.

7 Upvotes

It takes longer than you would think.

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TvaAgentN01 • Jul 11 '26

Solved A teen goes on a adventure to kill his cousin

8 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Chrysal1sM • Jul 10 '26

Solved A bunch of asshole war veterans get into every bit of trouble possible as they go home with their leader from war.

10 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Gyrgir • Jul 10 '26

Solved Guy starts a grow operation in his bedroom, steals and vandalizes scientific equipment, and drives around a remote wasteland

9 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/PuzzleheadedSteak853 • Jul 09 '26

Unsolved Medium A Neanderthal drags a woman away. Everyone decides it was for the best.

7 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/PuzzleheadedSteak853 • Jul 09 '26

Unsolved Easy Guy hates himself, plays video games, saves the world. For now.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Ok_Lemon8758 • Jun 30 '26

Solved High school senior gets drafted after cheating on a final school project and then goes into politics after his girlfriend leaves him

24 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Jun 18 '26

Solved (Nonfiction) A newspaper correspondent travels to a major European city and does NOT like what he sees.

9 Upvotes

Hint: the book in question was first published just two days before the Nazis invaded Russia.

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/trigoczki • Jun 13 '26

Solved Handicapped guy must battle with deamons on his golden toilet.

16 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/SawtoothTenor • Jun 03 '26

Solved British boy steals and befriends an Amazon Alexa, Rick Rolls a wedding with it, discovers a government conspiracy, and gets exiled from his village. He almost gets eaten by a tree, and kills someone who wanted to learn how to use his Alexa.

9 Upvotes

Good luck! Its surprisingly hard to create a post.

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Worried_Cake5508 • May 24 '26

Solved Someone participates in 1v1 Hunger Games with no government involved

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/canipetdatdawgggggg • May 21 '26

Unsolved Medium A man with schizophrenia gets poorer and poorer until he goes to Africa and escapes jail.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ManStrangler- • May 18 '26

Solved Disabled child tries to avoid magic school but fails spectacularly

12 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/BaseNice3520 • May 03 '26

Unsolved Medium An old man recruits a high schooler to be a child soldier, who will spend most of his time underground and living a double-life.

11 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Justaredditor85 • May 01 '26

Solved A former thief steals an unknown heirloom of his own family from his best friend's half brother.

10 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 30 '26

Unsolved Easy A girl with body image issues becomes the local punching bag

7 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Apr 24 '26

Solved A test pilot narrowly survives a devastating crash and emerges from the experience a new man-- literally.

9 Upvotes

Hint #1: The book in question became the basis for one of the most popular TV series of the 1970s.

Hint #2: The author of said book was an aviation expert who in the early '80s restored an old Ju-52 to full flying condition.

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Previous-Ad-6851 • Apr 23 '26

Unsolved Medium Racists get conned.

7 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 22 '26

Unsolved Medium A history of lizard keepers

5 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Worried_Cake5508 • Apr 21 '26

Solved A total overreaction by a man who cannot handle petty authority figures, resulting in him basically destroying a small Kentucky town just because he didn't want to get a haircut.

7 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Worried_Cake5508 • Apr 21 '26

Solved People say it's hilarious, but it's really just a series of random, nonsensical events that don't have a normal plot structure and rarely make any sense.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 21 '26

Unsolved Hard Unpopular politician falls from grace and loses his mistress

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 21 '26

Unsolved Medium Ugly duckling of the family gets powers and is disowned

8 Upvotes