I would agree. Although my work involves writing some code under VS2010 on Windows so I can't use C++11 features, I still read Stroustrup's book. The tour of C++ is particularly helpful as it covers many of the new features, and offers tips like making the compiler work for you.

Stroustrup wrote an interesting paper (wish I could find it) in IEEE/Computer magazine that strongly advocated static code and not overuse of dynamic_casts etc. for speedy programs - this is making the compiler do all of the optimization instead of doing everything/making many decisions at run time.

The Wikipedia article on C++11 covers many of the new features quite well, but Stroustrup's recent revision of the C++ book is a joy to read - the fonts help, as the previous one had some pretty horrible fonts in my opinion.

C++98 with TR1 comes close enough, it's what I use for lack of C++11 compiler support.

The funny thing is that "C++ as most people know it" is pretty far from "C++ as it was intended". Luckily, C++11 is nudging everyone towards the latter.