Beyond Reality discussion

Share the first line of your current book—did it hook you? Why or why not?

I’m reading Rose Madder by Stephen King.

Here’s the first line of the Prologue: Sinister Kisses

She sits in the corner, trying to draw air out of a room which seemed to have plenty just a few minutes ago and now seems to have none.

Yes, both the title of the prologue and the first line were a great hook. It instantly sets a tone of tension in your mind, which I can tell you only gets worse throughout this opening scene. Even if you don’t know this book is about domestic abuse, it immediately raises your sense of alert.

Not so tiny any more, and that's a fact.

I JUST started this one - Mr. Timothy by Louis Bayard - it's a murder mystery and the protagonist is Tiny Tim grown up. I'm only a few pages in, so I can't say much more about the book, but just the concept hooked me!

It was cold down in the bowels of the earth.

First line of Seal of the Worm by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I was already “hooked”, given that this is book 10 and the finale of the Shadows of the Apt series. But this is a good first line… tantalizing, foreboding, brutally to the point.

Mine starts with an old newspaper article, so not a great first line intro to a book. :)

From The Good House

"A mudslide on Walnut Lane last Saturday, brought about by heavy rains, has left eight families without homes as a “river of mud” swept whole houses from their foundations and smashed them to bits at midnight."

The first non news paper article line is better.

"THE KNOCKING at her door early Thursday afternoon might have sounded angry to an ear unschooled in the difference between panic and a bad mood, but Marie Toussaint knew better."

An adventure that never ended

Considering the only things I'm reading right now are cookbooks, I'm not sure if the words of the introduction are really a hook. Though, for a cookbook this one isn't bad.
That said, the first recipe is for Focaccia, which I love. So that is a good start. Not sure I'd ever bother making it myself as I can buy really good stuff at the local market whenever I want.