How do you get hooked to a book?

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What hooks me…? The first line or page must grab me with words of depth! If I don’t like the first page I book the book down… I suppose it is just the way I am [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img].

First Lines/Paragraphs That Grabbed Me:

The Hobbit:

In a HOLE in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring:

When Mr. Bilbo of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his elevty-first birthday with part of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

Ok you know all of the other books beginnings but don’t they just grip you? I still can believe one person such as Tolkien can have such a great imagination!