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The Great Gatsby has entered public domain, meaning you can take it and do just about whatever you want with it. Nobody can stop you from printing an all-over t-shirt with every word from first to last, “In” to “past.” Nobody can stop you from recording your own jazzy audiobook version. Nobody can stop you from finally making that Gatsby: Revengeanceining first-person shooter.

With all this new freedom...what are some of the best and worst things we could do with The Great Gatsby now?

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Ah, the cold, blustery plains of singledom. An uncomfortable yet inevitable stage of life that has been subject to the musings and contemplations of writers since time immemorial. In the fictional world, there are examples of those that take the single life in their stride — say, Samantha Jones, living her best life in New York City, with a high powered job and great friends. Others, like Bridget Jones, are the epitome of the hapless singleton, sobbing into a tub of Ben & Jerry’s on the couch as all her peers are happily coupled up.

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Images via Katie Salerna & Karolina Grabowska

I don’t consider myself a romance author by any stretch of the imagination, but I have written a lot of it. As a ghostwriter, I've produced a lot of content, far more than under my own name. The vast majority falls into two broad categories. I’ve written a ton of business/autobiographical/self-help nonfiction.

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Because it’s government-mandated Love Month (that’s how Valentine’s works, right?), and because my understanding of love is that it’s weird and uncomfortable, and because I do so much complaining, I decided it’s time to say something nice.

Below is a list of books that I don’t like for various reasons.

And now I’ll do my very best to say something nice about each one of them.