I get why people love this book. It is about following your heart and following your dream and never give up because if you lose faith in your personal legend means you lose faith in God and that the whole universe conspired to help you. However, the author of this book didn't execute the idea right. His writing is extravagant an redundant as he kept trying to shove down the idea again and again. The whole notion about not giving a doubt or thinking clearly about what your dream is was also wrong. Just because he dreams he went to Egypy meant the whole universe conspire to help him to go to Egypt. The importance of dream in this novel is a hyperbole, and the boy's motive of moving forward is unreasonable, of sacrificing all the unnecessary things (love and stable life) to pursue something dream-like and uncertain (at the end of the novel it was only a chunk of gold, wtf?). This novel encourages you to just blindly following your heart's desire but do not think about its consequences. This sets up unrealistically as a spiritual experience without real logic.