Don't blame him for being praised by critics, I don't believe he's the one who claimed to have invented post-apocalyptic fiction. I get the punctuation issue,

Don't blame him for being praised by critics, I don't believe he's the one who claimed to have invented post-apocalyptic fiction. I get the punctuation issue, but I think his writing is proof that you don't always need to follow the rules from elementary school. He was so meticulous that, even without commas, all his sentences remained clear, and the effect it had was—for most readers anyway—to make the meaning somehow clearer, and certainly more powerful.