I hope you are joking? I thought it was horrible - it took forever to get to the point. In fact so long that I couldn't bear reading it beyond the first paragraph.
That "ton of paper" is great writing - people use a "ton" to mean an unspecified large amount, but then there's already the unspecified "filled", so you have to rethink what they just read as an actual, 2000lb ton. Then, once they've corrected themselves, they have to visualize what 2,000lb of paper looks like, and most people probably imagine it looking bigger than it actually does. I found the writing to be a joy.
I didn't have a problem with the phrase "ton of paper". I just picked that example because I thought the two clauses of the sentence didn't fit together well and the double use of the word "paper" was jarring.
Maybe, "Gregory's cluttered bedroom contains at least a ton of paper." Or, "Gregory’s bedroom is filled with paper; it contains a literal ton of printouts, articles, and magazine clippings."
IANAW though. And I don't know what a literal ton is.
