With high expectations I bought this book, but was disappointed when reading. To respect the fundamental idea of "Omen" in the world to pursue his own way ("Personal Legend") seemed at first very promising, but in the course of the motivations of the protagonists were not explained. His decisions and actions are described only superficially. What are his motives? How does that feel the protagonist? Why he has fallen in love? Instead of describing this, followed by a chain to buzzwords like "Omen", "Personal Legend" and "Universal Language". After a while I could not see these words, because they were the reason for all that has happened and been repeated too often. The Alchemist itself plays only a minor role, and his person is poorly characterized. The basic idea of the book is quite nice, but rich and exciting this book now really is not. Since it is relatively thin, I still read it to the end. Presumably it will be my last book by Paulo Coelho ...