Been taking it slow but I'm just about done with Xenogears perfect works on abotu page 190.
For those wondering Xenogears perfect works is a compilation of writing, explaination and such of the games plot and characters with lots of pre production and production images released exclusively in japan I never had a chance before to read it.

But your american Americans dont speak other languages specially japanese...yes your right we don't but I found an excellent translation online, and while its a direct translation *some of the words lose their meaning* its shining light on alot of the concepts in the xenogears game...I can recommend only one thing...Play disc 1 of xenogears, Ignore disc 2 get the perfect works translation and you will have a far better time with the story and plot then you would if you actually played disc 2.