Why is this book so loved? It only shares very basic principles that you can find all over. I was very excited to read this book because it was so highly suggested and I was pretty disappointed after finishing it.

Admittedly I don't love fictional novels that are really parables and are didactic nature, but I know some people love those. Things like The Alchemist, The greatest Salesman in the world etc. To me that style feels like a story anyone could write that the author inserted lessons into. If they just took the lessons only and turned them into a book that book would only be an essay because it would be so short.

Probably sounds like a rant which it isn't. There are some good lessons in the book but I just did a 10 second google search and found a good synopsis that gives the same information in a more accessible medium: