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This author makes trash so much less exciting than it is. The author does not successfully connect their personal experience with the larger context of their city, nor of urban waste management, nor even of a job well done.

The author is really, really proud of the books he reads, yet manages to dull any influence they had on his interactions in the world.
The author trades in peculiar stereotypes about unhoused people, people with body modification, people who become doctors… the book includes many prejudices.

This book contains a surprising and unnecessary amount of sexual violence and rape.
The writing is more formulaic and less nuanced than others in the series, with the characters more shallow and the dialog lacking verve.

The author’s prose is looser than in other books, with more run-on sentences and comma splices; on a few occasions he has assumed the reader knows characters or plot developments that come pages later.

The author favors an unusual sentence structure, starting out as a binary and running into a multiple-choice scenario.

Confusing and unclear: the narrative lacks smoothness, and some sentences pop in so abruptly that they seem to have jumped from a different chapter