Rain's Reading Log quoted Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #1)
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Thursday Next series comes a “laugh-out-loud …
The Word of Munsell was the Rules, and the Rules were the Word of Munsell. They regulated everything we did, and had brought peace to the Collective for nearly four centuries. They were sometimes very odd indeed: The banning of the number that lay between 72 and 74 was a case in point, and no one had ever fully explained why it was forbidden to count sheep, make any new spoons or use acronyms. But they were the Rules—and presumably for some very good reason, although what that might be was not entirely obvious.
— Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #1) (10%)
The concept of banning a number is jacking me up when I try to wrap my head around it. This book has thrown out some pretty wild concepts very casually that I have taken at face value. Though banning a number from just being used would be near impossible.