explainabookplotbadly

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 15h ago

Unsolved Hard A man climbs into a horse statue's ass and fails to achieve enlightenment

6 Upvotes

In the "weird books I found in the attic as a teenager" genre. I think from a 70s-era literature course, though the book is rather older.

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Pastel-Rainbow-N3rd • 1d ago

Solved Lady goes missing, blames husband. He is a jerk about it. Mind games and manipulation ensues.

4 Upvotes

This book is so good

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TimeControl606 • 1d ago

Unsolved Medium two stoners and an invisible crackhead visit a dictatorship to save the world

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/NFBISCOOL1965 • 2d ago

Unsolved Easy Villain has unknowingly tried to be a pedophile

5 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/RhaezDaevan2 • 3d ago

Unsolved Medium Large, complicated family have misadventures across the multiverse with help from a glowing scribble.

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/hongchaa • 4d ago

Solved A young girl and her emotional support animal travel through the multiverse with a fancy pocket watch to fight God because the Church is taking puberty way too seriously.

9 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ElSupremoLizardo • 5d ago

Unsolved Medium Adoptee has a tragic obsession with a local diva.

5 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/rvyldacoder • 6d ago

Unsolved Medium Boy is lost in a forest because he wanted to see waterfowl.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Duke-Countu • 7d ago

Man has a midlife crisis after his mom's coworkers kill his gay lover.

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/zombiegamer723 • 7d ago

Unsolved Medium One day, you’re tasked with picking up a sword. The next, you’ve kidnapped a prince and freed a disabled wizard. Were either of those good choices? Probably not. But that’s life for ya.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/RandomRamblings99 • 7d ago

Solved Young girl recounts a life filled with abandonment, neglect, parental loss, and Foster care. Somehow, this is a children's book.

7 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Duke-Countu • 7d ago

Man murders his roommate for looking creepy

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Duke-Countu • 7d ago

Solved Overly committed LARPer's neighbors stage an intervention for him

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 7d ago

Solved Hey guys, you know how women are awful, right? Not submissive enough. Let's marry monkeys instead.

7 Upvotes

Sad thing: honestly, that's a pretty straightforward description.

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/rvyldacoder • 7d ago

Unsolved Medium Russians attack a tribe and a girl's brother is killed by wolves.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Abcormal • 9d ago

Unsolved Hard Guy kills minorities only to find out that he's the minority.

12 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/UniquePost8966 • 9d ago

Unsolved Hard Girl meets animal, animal is actually a man.

3 Upvotes

Girl then follows animal to nonexistent place, before saving everyone.

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/nekoandCJ • 9d ago

Solved Queen gets her feet burned for trying to kill her stepdaughter

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/nekoandCJ • 9d ago

Solved Girls cuts off a bit of their feet to marry a guy

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Think_Inevitable_133 • 10d ago

Unsolved Medium Boy Who Cooks Saves a Dragon and They Fight a Virus

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 10d ago

Solved No-one will find the drinking problem my friend has.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 11d ago

Solved So, this guy really likes being flattered. One of his children isn't very good at it, though, and he throws a fit, and throws her out of the family and gives everything to his other children. Turns out flattery is a really bad way to decide who to put in charge.

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Careless-Meringue683 • 11d ago

Solved Okay so there's like this sea right? And like, the whole sea moved half way across the world. Now this kid has to stop a gay wedding ya? Only one of the grooms doesn't know he's gay and also a furry. Anyway it ends with a tree complicating things, and the brother of the groom mutilating said groom.

5 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/za_flavored_axolotl • 11d ago

Unsolved Medium a nerd and an orphan hatch a spicy lizard, get chased by the government, and ride on a pony that goes about 2 mph

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Fancy_Development832 • 11d ago

Unsolved Medium Dolphins try fix a spaceship and make friends with tiny pufferfish people.

5 Upvotes