While I disagree about Androids, that line made me laugh pretty fukn hard...enough to make my office mate look at me awkwardly. I will never dispute that PKD couldn't write for shit (his famous line about speed that you quote is evidence enough that even he admitted as much). I'm no expert on his work but I've read four or five of his novels and probably 15 or so short stories. Anyway, enough to get a sense of him. My take is that there's often signal in the noise. What I love about Androids is the human attentiveness to animals. That whole thing is almost never talked about when reflecting on the story, as we're perpetually stuck in the human/fabricant dichotomy, but I think the story was more about the search for empathy in a destroyed world. And how even empathy can be co-opted by corporate interests when it serves their bottom line. If I were you (and I had a few days to read a story), I would give High Castle a try. It's a vastly different book than any of his others, as it was penned before he was nuts and apparetly still cared about being coherent. It's also not a sci-fi so much as an alternate history. It certainly won't be Earth shattering, but it's a very good read, IMO.I know Kilgore Trout was supposed to be Theodore Sturgeon, but I've always imagined him as Philip K. Dick.