+1 to alexandrescu's "Modern C++" showing the expressive power of C++. Also, imho, one o the key points of the book is how Alexandrescu criticises the OO patterns of the so horrible Gang Of Four. Anybody who have readed their book in depth should note that they provide a poor cookbook with "Do you have this problem, copy-paste that code" notes and an implementation provided by someone thats completely biased with all the OOP buzzwords, but never implemented them seriously in a real language.
First, GoF and design patterns in general isn't really meant to be "copy and paste" code. They're very clear that the code is provided merely for illustrative purposes.
Most of the design patterns in the GoF book are actually cribbed/realized in standard libraries of various languages where they work quite well. The problem is, those languages look almost nothing like C++. You could describe it as "biased with OOP", but it's really more that C++'s peculiarities (value semantics, comparatively complex and tightly coupled inheritance semantics, a purely functional meta-object protocol with very limited reflection semantics, and yes, it's multi-paradigm approach) make it serve as a bad fit.
Ironically though, much of MCPP is proving C++-style manifestations of GoF design patterns...
