In his first project since Adolescence , creator Jack Thorne tackles the famed English novel and the corrupting power of influence Jack Thorne finds it ironic now, but the first copy of Lord of the Flies he ever read was technically stolen.  His mother was a substitute English teacher — known as a supply teacher in the U.K. — and had a school copy of author Henry Golding’s seminal book about a group of schoolboys stranded on an island who quickly lose their sense of right and wrong on a bookshelf at home. “I was a terrible sleeper as a kid so I would pick up books and read them through the night,” Thorne tells Rolling Stone. “I started reading this book and I was utterly compelled.”  Now, that obsession is the first television adaption of Lord of the Flies, out now on Netflix . Since its publication in 1954, Lord of the Flies has become one of the most well-known novels in the canon of British literature for its nuanced exploration of human nature.…