Agreed. And I was continually amazed while reading it that it was nearly 60 years old. The ending is fantastic and, in my opinion, would be impossible to put on the screen in any effective way.
3y
I actually have a really cinematic picture of the ending in my head, where Neville gazes on this vast crowd of the 'new' humanity and sees the fear in their eyes, to a voiceover from the denouement of the book.