Karen S. Cole has been working on and off about The Rainbow Horizon for at least ten years. It is not the most well written of books, and was never meant to be anything other than a unique kind of thoughtful fluff, running around like a headless chicken, bombastically declaring the nature of all things political as something only worth lampooning and straightening out. The end result is romance combined with friendship, in the little mythical town of Rama, Washington. If you can't see the contents of this book, you're not willing to take things humorously. If you can, you will find a long version of a simple but clever jest, the kind with a punch line that gets you to think. Reflect upon this in terms of the joke, "One day, a rabbi, a priest and a minister walk into a bar - hitting their heads, they all fall down." Plays on words, running gags, background stories that have nothing to do with the book's overall plot - this book is loaded with that sort of thing. I could stand to do more work on it, then I'd feel happier. But it already reads like a straightforward dream about people, one where each person has to decide how to drift subconsciously into the lives of their own making and eventual fulfillment. Well, enough farting around; if you're here only to kill time, read this book and get a laugh out of it!