I received my copy in the mail two days ago. I just finished chapter 8 and I like the book. It is certainly not for beginners to programming. My introduction to c++ was a book called Starting out with C+: From Control Structures to Objects, it was a much better book for starting out, but does not go into detail nearly as much as Stroustrup.
I picked up a copy of The C++ Standard Library a Tutorial and Reference 2nd Edition a couple of months ago, I also recommend it if you are interested in C++11.