I won't be losing any sleep over it

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Philip Dick must have had ADD. All the characters in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? act like they do, too. Conversations go like this.

"Instead of killing those other androids, I'm going to stop right here and kill you," he says.

"Wait, I'll get my laser out of my purse and kill you first," she says. "Oh forget it, I can never find anything in my purse. Please don't kill me."

"Prepare to die."

"Okay, but please do it quickly and painlessly."

"Forget it, I'm not going to kill you. I'll drop you off now. Is your car still where we left it?"

I'm paraphrasing, but not exaggerating.

It reminded me of every Steven Spielberg movie, where I want to scream, "People don't act that way! You're just making them do incomprehensibly stupid things so another catastrophe can happen." I walked out of The Lost World during the cliff-hanger.

I did read to the end to see if something would tie it together, let it all make sense. Instead I wonder, was it a joke? Apparently, not even super-intelligent androids can concentrate on one thing for five seconds.

It's one case where the movie, Blade Runner, is way better.