Templates?

Has anyone read Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu? What did you think? I thought it was a great book. The stuff he does with templates is amazing. I use VC++ 6.0 and not a single bit of the code will compile but still cool. How often do you get to use templates? Pretty much the only time I use templates is by using the standard library. Does anyone use templates much in the code they write?