YOU SAID:
I've been reading common sense by Thomas Paine.
INTO JAPANESE
私はThomas Paineの常識を読んできました。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I have read the common sense of Thomas Paine.
INTO JAPANESE
私はThomas Paineの常識を読んだ。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I read common sense of Thomas Paine.
INTO JAPANESE
私はThomas Paineの常識を読んでいます。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I am reading common sense of Thomas Paine.
INTO JAPANESE
私はThomas Paineの常識を読んでいます。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I am reading common sense of Thomas Paine.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.