The Brilliantly Rainbowed Adventure has been lauded by the critics with a palpitating platter of plaudits. Some of the more outstanding quotes are cited below.

      Gypsy guitarist plunged his head
          Into this bright-mixed-bag of lively treats,
              And there beheld electric metaphors
                  That clung like psychedelic clams
                      Unto the fingers of his mind.

- Zeb Hendrix, "Guitar Player" magazine.

"Once in an millennium a book like this comes along. It is unfortunate that it had to come along in ours."

- Justin Caldwell Snootfellow III, "The Critic"

"As regressive and ill-informed as any work that ever stained paper."

- Professor Artemus K. Nemo, Phd.

"A densely woven and often misunderstood novel that has been attacked by those unable to comprehend its height, breadth, and depth: its childlike simplicity and its awesome, breathtaking complexity. Hootenanny B. Hootenanny reinvents the American dream and makes us like it."

- Horatio Alger, "The Saturday Evening Post"

"Hootenanny is not just another pretty face. He's just another face."

- Cher

"Help!"

-Hootenanny B. Hootenanny

Perhaps the most insightful commentary on this unusual work has come from the pen of that great Native American playwright, William Trembling-Lance, a close personal friend of Hootenanny B. Hootenanny:

          Before you, gentle audience,
          I cannot disavow
          The many shudders, grunts, and puffs
          That I in sore surprise declaimed
          When reading this dread book.
          Oft the friend fries in the pan:
          Floats in the shimmering, snapping grease,
          While earnest men of conscience must,
          Alas, turn up the heat.
          Perhaps the author has cooked up here
          A larger tort than he can serve;
          I'll let him stew in his own juices.
          Yet be forewarned, fair voyager.
          Pick up this book with wizened eyes
          and squint, sage soul, to ascertain.
          Has genius here outleapt the bounds,
          Or icy void brought forth........chilblains?

          (The Play Within It, II, iii, 1-18)